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• So Where Are We with General Petraeus?

  

  What on earth is happening when an American who has been trusted as much as General Petraeus has his little love affair exposed (which doesn’t seem to have... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Now That the Political Season is 0ver…

  

  After the most expensive and longest and most frustrating presidential campaign in our history, we can now get back to0 the important stuff. To me, of course,... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Questions You Ask Yourself…

  

  I’m discovering as I face brain surgery and it’s unknown consequences that I find myself asking questions about what I have and have not accomplished over the... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• So the World’s Culture Changes… Not Necessarily for the Better…

  

  Is our view of social interaction unusually influenced by television crime drama? You Betcha!For instance:Dorothy, Dorothy! And what are you doing with your... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Lunch with the Family…

  

  Oy! Three flights of stairs! My sister took Elly and me, my mother, my son and his wife, my two daughters and three of my grandsons to lunch at Lightfoots, a... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Veterans Day…

  

  I’ll be clear, here. I am not a veteran of our armed forces. When my eligibility would have occurred I got a 1 Y on my physical and was never allowed in (I was... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It’s Veterans Day…

  

  I’ll be clear, here. I am not a veteran of our armed forces. When my eligibility would have occurred I got a 1 Y on my physical and was never allowed in (I was... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cartoon(s) of the Week – It’s All Over. Where Are We?

  

  Kevin Siers in The Charlotte Observer:Perhaps we can start on getting religion out of politics. What are we, the Taliban?- and -Clay Bennett in the Chattanooga... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 DEBATE, HUMOR, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ever Make out a “living Will?”

  

  My daughter, wife son and daughter-in-law are all participating in making out the details for a “living will“… I guess they are worried about what to do with... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Another Good Reason Not to Trust Rich Republicans…

  

  This was on NBC:“From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hey Radio Fans… I’ll Be on from 10:30 to Noon Today…

  

  This will probably be the last time in the next two weeks that I can be on the air, given my forthcoming hospital visit next week. So… I’ll be thrilled to get... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Quote for the Week – I Can Hardly Believe Someone Would Say This…

  

  This is a quote that was published today by Buck Banks in Pensito Review. It was headed “Now This Guy Is A Sore Loser!” Eric Dondero “All family and friends,... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Final Results of the Election…

  

  If you haven’t seen where everything finally ended up after Florida was called (which took an awfully long time and right up to the very end the GOP said... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Looks Like I’m on a Revised Schedule and a Doctor Change for Brain Surgery…

  

  My wife, daughter and my son (who just came in from Wisconsin to see me) have just returned from a long morning and early afternoon in Georgetown (northern DC)... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I’ll Be Away Most of the Day…

  

  Why is Bill happy? Don’t knowI won’t be around most of the day to enter anythingt into Under The LobsterScope, since I will be in Georgetown meeting with a new... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I Have Such an Urge to Direct Again…

  

  … and what I really am eager to do is a production of the 1953 musical “Kismet“, whose music was adapted from classical work of Hector Berlioz. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 THEATRE & OPERA

• My Congratulations to Stephen Skinner…My Best Wishes to Elliot Simon

  

  The election finished in West Virginia with results I predicted on the air. So we have a wonderful guy going to the State House of Delegates representing us her... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It Looks Like the Obama/Netanyahu Relationship is Not the One the Republicans...

  Here is Israel‘s Prime minister with the US Ambassador, congratulating Obama and reinforcing the two countries’ “rock solid” relationship: Related articles... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Daughter, Cassandra, Has Come Down from Connecticut and is Helping My Wife...

  

  I don’t know what I would do if I were on my own, here, dealing with doctors changing schedules without giving us warning, accidentally taking medications that... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Day of Celebration Underscored by Personal Madness…

  

  AT 4:30 this morning when I posted Obama‘s win I had had 2 1/2 hours of sleep and needed to be up by five to drive to Hagerstown for the first of five... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY