Let Them Eat Cake or: How To Salvage the 2016 Presidential Election

Ignorance is not bliss.  Anger and hate speech is not a promising long term proposition for making America great again.  How did anger and hatred become such an integral part of our political landscape?  It’s disturbing and frightening to watch, but … [Continue reading]

It’s His Party! He Can Dance If He Wants To (you would dance too, if it happened to you)

Okay, Super Bowl is in half an hour, so I have to get to the point.  Here goes. Straight to the point.  Look mom, bullet points!! Tens of thousands of people go to football games.  They dress in colors that don’t look good on anyone.  Behavior … [Continue reading]

Be Careful What You Wish For

I love TCM movies.  Particularly the ones that star Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Sidney Poitier, or Sally Field (Norma Rae) as the everyman hero who stumbles through life until he (or she) is forced by circumstances to take stock of his life and what … [Continue reading]