It’s been awhile since I last shared my thoughts about the state of the union: much has been going on, including a visit by my son and family, continuing renovation at the family fish camp and, of course, lots of tennis leading up to Wimbledon which has just started. It’s times like this when I’m…

The breaking news as I write this is about the killing of a Democratic lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota by an assassin masquerading as a police officer. The spouses of two other state representatives were wounded as well. This awful news against the backdrop of what is happening across the United States and in…

I’ve been absent from writing because I took a break and went to the French Open for two weeks, both out of my appreciation for tennis and as a much needed respite from the unrelenting absurdity of our politics. Unfortunately, my trip was a virtual one, watching the matches on television and keeping up with…

During a gully washer of a rain storm the other day, I holed up with Shelby, my 4 year old black Labrador Retriever, and we talked about a lot of things, that is, I talked a lot and she mostly listened. I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of canine companions in my life,…

Just yesterday I got a call that one of my closest friends had been rushed to the hospital with a life-threatening issue. He had recently had stents put in his carotid arteries to correct blockage stemming from radiation treatments for cancer years ago. I was stunned because I had thought he was out of the…

The latest is that Russia and the United States have yet again kicked the can down the road about resolving the Russo-Ukraine War. Now the world must wait until June 2nd for the next sit-down talks. Only the most naive among us or those who are helplessly partisan hold out any hope that something substantive…

By now we all have heard the unctuous hyperbole ad infinitum and ad nauseam that is Donald Trump. Remember his promise to end the Russo-Ukraine War in twenty-four hours if reelected to the presidency? Since then he has continually praised Putin and blamed Zelenskyy, cut back on U.S. support to Ukraine, and publicly questioned the…

If you missed this book, you might want to pick it up as a primer to help you understand the pros and cons of contemporary economics. Reading it challenges our knowledge of economic realities. The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future by Jeff Booth (Stanley Press, 2020) argues that…

Putin and Trump’s dance about negotiations to settle the Russo-Ukraine War is nothing more than a charade bringing more death and suffering to the Ukrainian people. Like Nero, they fiddle in the face of destruction as they dance about to achieve their nefarious schemes: Putin to render Ukraine defeated and impotent; for Trump a scalp…

Trump is a dangerous racist. It’s been more than 100 years since we’ve had an outright racist in the White House, the last being Woodrow Wilson, an apologist for slavery, who actively worked against admission of African Americans to Princeton and, as president, mandated that the federal workforce be segregated by race. Trump’s racism is…