The Mississippi state senate is attempting to pass a ‘religious’ liberty bill. People who want to exercise their faith, should, …Read the Rest
CULTURE
No More Abortion – Issue – Please
I’m tired of it. We’ve been fighting this abortion battle since the 1980s, and all it has done is split …Read the Rest
Voice-over vs. Captions
I quit watching the National Geographic Channel ages ago due to the fact that instead of doing a voice over …Read the Rest
The Big Fat Feminist Lie
Do you know why women watch beauty pageants? No, it’s not a joke or a punch line. Women watch beauty …Read the Rest
Do You Still Beat Your Wife?
Once upon a time a man named Gary Hart dared the press to follow him as he proved he did …Read the Rest
The Narcissistic Demands of Irate Individuals
Without disclosing too much, my sister has a successful, small restaurant chain in a large city. Her anchor location is …Read the Rest
Torturing with Thoughts of Torture
When you live in a country where the president of a major university offers therapy and counseling to students who …Read the Rest
The Long View of Life
Don’t ask me the year. I was just a little kid. I’m thinking it was mid-summer, 1962. I’d spent several …Read the Rest
Get a Political Grip, Already Yet
The world is up in arms because Donald Trump said that there would be riots if the GOP convention was …Read the Rest
The Mitt Romney Republicans or The Slobs vs. the Snobs
Remember the classic comedy, Caddyshack, where everything basically was about a clash of civilizations, the Slobs vs. the Snobs? That …Read the Rest
Stupid People Not Voter Suppression
This is what voter suppression looks like. Once again we are being subjected to a litany of complaints about the …Read the Rest
St. Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, …Read the Rest
Fanatics & True Believers
NOTE: I am in the process of writing daily essays for a book about Lent. This is from March 14. …Read the Rest
Liberals Can Be So Ignorant… How Ignorant Are They?
I was rather interested in an article about something Barack Obama said in 2008. Obama was quoting the 1987 movie, …Read the Rest
Something Nasty This Way Has Come
As I have repeatedly stated, there is nothing wrong with honorable protest, done orderly and with a modicum of manners …Read the Rest
Sunday Morning Opera: O du mein holder Abendstern
One of the greatest baritone arias ever is O du mein holder Abendstern from Tannhauser. Enough said. Like a premonition …Read the Rest
When Campaign Spending Is Pure Evil
The other day I heard that, in one week the anti-Trump Romney version of the GOP (or what they left …Read the Rest
Border Problems
“…The Border Patrol’s Lordsburg station has been understaffed in recent months, down about 50 agents in a location that is …Read the Rest
Sunday Morning Opera: Sex and Politics
There are two constant themes in opera – sex and politics. They are almost always in the same opera. There …Read the Rest
Odds & Ends & Mittens Gone Mad
Ted Cruz winning the Kansas GOP caucus is not exactly a big fat hairy deal. I would have been shocked …Read the Rest
The Tragedy of Sandra Bland
The officer who stopped Sandra Bland has been fired. That’s sad. Of all the tragic deaths of young people the …Read the Rest
Why I Plan to Vote for Trump
In 1984, the conservative ‘establishment’ elite decided to band together and force Ronald Reagan not to run for re-election. He …Read the Rest
The Koch Immolation of Donald Trump
What I find absolutely remarkable is the fact that someone made an announcement picked up by The Hill, that there …Read the Rest
Marco the Little Bully Boy
Rumor is Marco Rubio’s wife called the wife of Ted Cruz, begging her to talk him into quitting the race …Read the Rest
Sunday Morning Opera: Latonia Moore
I am a confessed baritone junkie. It is very, very rare that I bother with anything else but baritones. But, …Read the Rest
Religious Context
The following fresco is being cleaned and restored, in Rome. It is, thus far, one of the earliest known representations …Read the Rest
Trump, the Elites and the Pundits
I do not support Trump. I was supporting my friend, Lindsey Graham, and then Jeb Bush. Republicans like of my …Read the Rest