What do you do when you haven’t taken a vacation for years, and you’re so over-worked you can’t remember your name? Do something stressful. I’m being facetious. But not much.  I wanted to go to the South Seas and become a bearded Paul Gauguin, but agreed to a lesser trip to San Francisco for...

photo courtesy Politicalarticles.net The following is an unauthorized biographical interview I did with Sarah Palin’s subconscious. Me – Sarah, you recently forced Obama’s advisor Rahm Emanuel to apologize for using the word “retarded,” saying it was an insult to your son....

Most words that began free of sexual meaning and evolved in modern times to a sexual connotation, for example, the words “gay,” and “slut,” started out innocently enough. Gay used to mean a happy person, and slut meant a woman with soiled clothing, not necessarily one who committed adultery. It...

Poor Obama. Who would want such a job? He makes an innocent statement that college kids shouldn’t spend their tuition money on gambling in Las Vegas and the governor of Nevada and state officials who are conservatives blast him for being anti-Silver State. For hurting the state’s economy. Even...

  What does John McCain have in common with cancer patients? Former presidential candidate John McCain is famous for using the word “fight” in every speech, peppering his rhetoric with it. He says over and over using the word perhaps thirty-five times in a single speech, “I’ll fight for your...

I can’t figure it out, and I’ve thought about it, but why is “God bless America” a popular saying? It seems somehow, elitist, exclusionary. I mean, if we go by inference, what’s between the lines, or what remains unsaid, if God blesses America, what about the rest of the...

American television stinks. They give out awards (Emmys) for producing crap. The best thing that ever happened was the writer’s strike, which partially shut down the foul industry. If only we could shut it all down. Shows with lawyers and doctors and women who try to act and talk tough. Shows that...

I had to play a joke on the maid at a hotel where I was staying. You know that little paper wrapper they place over the toilet seat, that thin paper band that is supposed to convince you that the facility is clean. You normally take the paper band off and throw it away when you go to use the john. Instead,...

My wife keeps a diary, and sometimes leaves it open with the last entry in view on the coffee table. I’m a person who wouldn’t want to read another person’s diary, even my wife’s, diaries being personal. But out of a corner of my eye, on the diary page, I saw my name. I couldn’t help reading.       ...

Ho Ho! Can you see the logic? The close relationship, the natural progression, from one thought to the next? Each year at Christmas we celebrate the birth of a First Century AD Galilean holy man and prophet, who preached, according to what we find in the Bible, humility, forbearance, sweetness and frugality....