I spent many hours at Delta Drugs filing paperwork, conversing with clients, reading magazines, standing around doing nothing, ordering supplies and taking deliveries. I got pretty good at pouring cough syrup into bottles and stocking empty shelves. At the time, I was a frustrated and confused young malcontent with a lot of emotional baggage to […]
I’d never seen cremains before. I never even knew that human ashes are called ‘cremains’ until my wife pointed it out to me. It makes sense when you think about it, though. My cousin Billy pulled the heavy, beautifully crafted wooden box from the trunk of his car, and I asked him to open it. […]
The racial doctrine in Lillian’s community was “separate, but not equal.” The men in her life pondered a cruel theological mystery in 1937 when Joe Louis became Heavyweight Champion of the world. How could God allow such a thing to happen? Black people were considered unworthy and inconsequential. There was a ‘place’ for blacks, and […]
Civil Rights and civil liberties: a discussion that begins and ends with the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a noble, pyrrhic attempt to limit the “tyranny of the national government,” however it says nothing about limiting state’s rights. An individual state’s ability to ignore or refuse to legally implement federal laws is […]
Donald Trump not only gets more network TV time than the other Republicans: he gets more time than all the other Republicans and all of the Democrats combined. I have never seen the MSM show such rank political promotion before. Poor, poor Bernie Sanders. The “liberal media” is a myth found only in the land of […]
Judicial review is a key concept in policy making and in changing the meaning or intent of the Constitution. Although not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, it is implied throughout. Federalist Paper #78 discusses the need for Judicial Review and in it Publius stresses that the Judiciary is by far the weakest of the three […]
All modern wars since WWII have been fought for resources and power – certainly not to bring democracy or peace to anyone. America keeps the world in a constant state of chaos thanks to the murderous psychopaths in the CIA, and this policy creates massive profits for the true rulers of the planet: Lockheed Martin, […]
My wife and I have been married for 32 years, and we have remained childless by choice. We decided long ago that we did not want to bring any children into this world. I realize now that not having a child is one of the most radical acts of defiance one can commit in our […]
I’ve always hated the term African-American, because I found it downright patronizing and vituperatively ‘Politically Correct.’ I am old enough to remember when that whole PC thing happened: during the odious Reagan era of the early 1980s. The ‘Reagan Revolution’ was a complete fraud; a Ponzi scheme of monumental proportions foisted upon an ignorant, gullible […]
The US Festival was a milestone in the history of rock music. It lasted for only two years – 1982 and 1983 – but the shows laid the groundwork for today’s enormous, week-long festivals: Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Coachella among them. The US Festival was three days – not of peace and music, but […]
