Category Archives: History

An Off Color Remark – White Like Me

  On the same sunny Sunday that thousands of my fellow citizens gathered on the National Mall for a day-long event to “rededicate” America to Christianity, thus leaving millions of non-Christians like me out in the cold, I was told

An Off Color Remark – White Like Me

  On the same sunny Sunday that thousands of my fellow citizens gathered on the National Mall for a day-long event to “rededicate” America to Christianity, thus leaving millions of non-Christians like me out in the cold, I was told

This Memorial Day, Don’t Let Them Have Died in Vain

They didn’t give their lives to live in a dictatorship. They didn’t give their lives to a country that would turn against its people, deprive them of resources, finances, and health care. They didn’t give their lives to a country

This Memorial Day, Don’t Let Them Have Died in Vain

They didn’t give their lives to live in a dictatorship. They didn’t give their lives to a country that would turn against its people, deprive them of resources, finances, and health care. They didn’t give their lives to a country

Watch-American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Watch-American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Missing My Father and his America

Yesterday, my thoughts were all about my mother. Today I’m thinking of my father Marvin, on his 9th yahrzeit. As so many of us who are children of the greatest generation, there is an uncomfortable relief I feel that he

Missing My Father and his America

Yesterday, my thoughts were all about my mother. Today I’m thinking of my father Marvin, on his 9th yahrzeit. As so many of us who are children of the greatest generation, there is an uncomfortable relief I feel that he

American Hate- Who’s Keeping Count?

  When little Johnny walked up to the classroom blackboard to work out an arithmetic problem, he had no idea the firestorm his chalk scribblings would create. At the first sight of the threatening numerical combination of 8647 written out

American Hate- Who’s Keeping Count?

  When little Johnny walked up to the classroom blackboard to work out an arithmetic problem, he had no idea the firestorm his chalk scribblings would create. At the first sight of the threatening numerical combination of 8647 written out

Fast Food Fit For a King

  There was no McDonald’s delivery to the Oval Office during the King’s recent visit. Despite his love of Big Macs, Donald Trump was specifically ordered NOT to serve McDonald’s to King Charles under any circumstances. The Monarch utterly hates

Fast Food Fit For a King

  There was no McDonald’s delivery to the Oval Office during the King’s recent visit. Despite his love of Big Macs, Donald Trump was specifically ordered NOT to serve McDonald’s to King Charles under any circumstances. The Monarch utterly hates

How I Found Something Cheerful As I Mourned My Mother

I just struck ephemera gold! On the afternoon of my mother Betty’s yahrzeit, a day spent reflecting on the fact that her passing now spanned the entirety of my childhood, I learned something about Mom’s own childhood that I never

How I Found Something Cheerful As I Mourned My Mother

I just struck ephemera gold! On the afternoon of my mother Betty’s yahrzeit, a day spent reflecting on the fact that her passing now spanned the entirety of my childhood, I learned something about Mom’s own childhood that I never

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Donald Pines For the Days of Davy Crockett

    While our nation is at war in the Middle East, our commander-in-chief thought it clever to post a picture of Davy Crockett or more accurately of Fess Parker as the King of the Wild Frontier from the wildly

Donald Pines For the Days of Davy Crockett

    While our nation is at war in the Middle East, our commander-in-chief thought it clever to post a picture of Davy Crockett or more accurately of Fess Parker as the King of the Wild Frontier from the wildly