I recently wrote about my mother forcing me to go back and pay for a soda-pop I drank that someone else had stolen. I am thankful for a mother who demanded I do the right thing. Then this morning, I read an abhorrent news article about six Florida teenagers between 14 and 16 years old…
Note: I started this on 12/27/16. The topic of fake news is still standing like a windmill under siege by Don Quixote. And-da-one-and-da-two . . . Fake News has become a hot topic, almost as if it had been cued up by the late Casey Kasem for an America’s Top 40 Countdown, all 40 songs…
Media of any sort is a powerfully curious thing. But this thing called the internet, and its child, social media, is more than curious. It is downright dangerous. I have noticed from observing the stats collected by WordPress for my blog site that I get far more hits when I post my reaction to current…
Until just this week, I had an employee, a Mr. Surly, a foreman who was extremely talented and good at what he did. The quality of his work was impeccable. This talent and capability covered a multitude of other shortcomings, which chiefly consisted of a growing and ultimately complete inability to get along with anyone…
Nine days ago I didn’t even know there was a Ferguson, Missouri. Not knowing that, I certainly didn’t know that it is a suburb of St. Louis. Come to think of it, there are a lot of things I don’t know, and I have plenty of company. I am pretty certain that a police officer…
Ones reputation is like a shadow. It is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows…Charles Maurice de Talleyrand I quote Talleyrand often. He was a cold-hearted, fish-blooded, disloyal, yet indispensable French Foreign Minister who single-handedly invented modern diplomacy in the service of French monarchs, emperors, and republics. None of…
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