Who would’ve thought that last night’s presidential debate would unfold as it did? I didn’t. Despite a format that discourages substantive discussion, two very different candidates emerged to help undecided voters make up their minds. Vice President Harris clearly did much better in the debate. She was positive and upbeat while former president Trump was…

Here we go again. Just hours before a presidential “debate,” we are primed by the media and the political parties to believe that something meaningful is about to take place as to the direction of the country, who will be elected our leader and what our fate as a people will be in the immediate…

It’s almost become a major parlor game among political pundits to examine why so many voters are so loyal to Trump and why they stand behind him despite overwhelming evidence of his corruption and faithless execution of his duties while president. While the question begs an answer, it enjoins us to repeat ad nauseam the…

Polls and pundits tell us that roughly 18% of eligible voters are presently uncommitted, though many lean toward one candidate or the other. When I read this in today’s morning Politico, I found it difficult to understand how, given the publicity and the highly charged politics of the last several years, anyone could still be…

I was hanging out this "Labor Day" watching tennis matches and noodling a blog topic when out of the blue I received a funky email entitled "For Your Trumper Friends." As noted above it came in "over the transom" unsolicited with no information as to origin or author. I suspect it came from Facebook and…

Increasingly I find myself asking why millions of Americans continue to acquiesce or actively support a second term for Donald Trump. I find it crazy, unbelievable, so much so that it must be fiction or a fantasy movie playing out on late TV to titillate audiences given over to absurd and bizarre tales. It must…

Sometime during the first Obama administration, I was sitting at a bar on St. Simons with a friend when the proprietor came up to chat and said “someone ought to shoot him!” I was startled but then realized he was talking about the president. I vividly remember that at the time I thought how awful…

We are still distracted by construction that has seriously altered our daily routine. If we’re lucky maybe it will be finished by this weekend. In the interim, I have tried to stay informed about the ongoing presidential campaign as well as international developments, especially regarding Ukraine, Venezuela and the Middle East. As far as US….

A lot has been going on here in my world. Coincidental to the momentous developments in national politics, the island has been threatened by a seasonal hurricane and a Mexican construction crew showed up to begin our planned renovations. It has been dicey, to say the least, trying to keep up with the news, prepare…

Fate has given us Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president in November 2024. As a daughter of immigrant parents, Jamaican and Indian, the nation’s first woman vice president, lawyer and prosecutor, her story is straight out of central casting, a heroine chosen to save us from ourselves. Back in 2008, I posted my…