There was no bigger star in the 1950s than Jackie Gleason, who was called “The Great One” by many of his peers. I first became aware of Jackie with his mid-60s variety show hosted in Miami Beach, and through re-runs of The Honeymooners. If you take early television and mention Jackie, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny,…
Having nothing to say doesn’t seem to be a malady many suffer from, but I think this perception is deceptive, since, not hearing from them, they get no attention. There’s lots of folks who have something to say, say it, and never get heard from again, having said it only within the confines of their…
We all have something to say, and that’s important, though few of us have anything to say that’s as important as our perception leads us to think. I read through some of WordPress’ Editor’s Picks for 2014. I was more than a bit disappointed. Of course, nothing I wrote made it into the top ten…
Fatigue is part of CLL. So is bone pain. So is a compromised immune system, night sweats, and a host of other maladies, some of which can be chalked up to CLL, and some simply exacerbated by being closer to sixty than to fifty. I have been too tired for too long, and had taken…
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. St. Augustine Ever try wading through Augustine’s City of God? His Confessions? I have and still do. Augustine used more words than they made words. He likely invented several. That’s OK…I do it all the time, too. This Christmas Eve is…
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C.S. Lewis Superlatives have been on my mind a lot lately. No, not Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, as they actually fit the bill…
Plain old aggression is no longer enough. Now we have micro-aggression, or so I have learned. We are going to carry sensitivity to such heights we will soon be offending others by not being offended when they think we should. That would not be micro-aggression, but macro-aggression. I first heard of micro-aggression over the Harvard…
I appreciate the intentions behind the Bay Cities gun buy-back program as reported in the Breitbart News link below. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/12/13/Bay-Cities-Hold-Handgun-Shotgun-Assault-Weapon-Buybacks-To-Commemorate-Sandy-Hook Now, before some of you begin to think about the foolishness of me looking at Breitbart, please close your open windows on Salon and Daily Kos. Good intentions don’t always produce good results. Sometimes good…
I just read that women’s rights activist and attorney Gloria Allred, representing three women who have accused Bill Cosby of being a sexual predator, has demanded that Cosby pay $100 million to her clients or waive the statute of limitations on civil lawsuits. Apparently, Ms. Allred would have Cosby agree to legal terms which she…
I have been unaware of too many things for too long. Or, maybe not. You’ll have to decide. Lately though, I have become aware of more things than I wanted to be aware of. I think I am tiring of the whole “Awareness” industry. Within the past few weeks, I have regretfully become aware of…
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