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• The Wright Stuff

  

  A contraption hangs from the ceiling of the Smithsonian’s atrium, largely of wood, cloth, and wire, appearing somewhat like a mutant kite. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Beautiful 14th Amendment, Birthright Citizenship, and Racism

  

  In the question period after my recent slavery talk, someone asked, weren’t even Northern whites, after the Civil War, very racist?No! Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Speech Hillary Won’t Give

  

  My fellow Americans:I am going to level with you about the e-mail controversy.“I did not have inappropriate e-mail with that server…”No, really, this time. Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Big Apple Nipple Crisis

  

  So it has come to this.What do you get when you mash up a) prudishness, b) a nanny-state mentality, and c) politically correct gender neutrality?Legislation to... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Proust and the Mystic Chords of Memory

  

  Marcel Proust was an odd cat. Poor health immured him for much of his life in his bedroom, whose walls he had lined with cork to keep the world out; he succumbe... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Next Door to the Dead: Poems, by Kathleen Driskell

  

  (This is a guest posting, written by my wife, Therese L. Broderick, and appearing on her own poetry blog.)Located on the same grounds where my father is... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Piketty, Inequality, Envy, and Fairness

  

  The rich-hating left went orgasmic over Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I previously discussed the controversy. Now I’ve read the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Human Life, and Death

  

  Laura Valenti decided to starve herself to death. It took two months.Her mind was deteriorating, but her decision wasn’t crazy. She had Huntington’s disease, an... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Great (?) Debate – Fox News Trumped

  

  If (as we’re told) Fox News was aiming to derail Trump, they sure weren’t clever like a fox. The “debate” could hardly have been better contrived to boost him. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are Men Necessary? (Is Hillary?)

  

  When I reported buying, at a used book sale, Maureen Dowd’s Are Men Necessary? I said I’d let you know the verdict after reading it. I bought it because Dowd... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• House of Sand and Fog

  

  Massoud Behrani, 56, is a California garbage man. He used to be an air force colonel; in Iran; fled with his family when Khomeini took over. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The $15 Minimum Wage – Money From Heaven

  

  Do you favor a $15 minimum wage? Nobody asks where the money comes from. Heaven, I guess.We’re told that if you give low wage workers more cash they’ll spend it... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trumped

  

  You expect some pithy comments on Trump statements. I won’t so dignify them.That a billionaire TV personality with hair issues would get a lot of attention as... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Streets Are Not Paved With Gold

  

  This poem came to me during July 4 fireworks surrounded by thousands of fellow citizens of every hue and stripe gathered in joyful celebration of America – righ... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Iran: The Deal

  

  Better had we never negotiated. This deal makes Iran a more empowered adversary than a nuclear-armed Iran would have been. How nukes could have actually... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Is a Business For? Is Profit a Dirty Word?

  

  At a recent social event, most guests sanctimoniously agreed it was somehow disgusting that anyone should make a profit providing health care. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pope Francis: Is Consumerism Bad?

  

  Pope Francis has denounced consumerism as a “poison” that threatens true happiness, and is an assault upon the poor. What does he say does bring true... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Greece At The Rubicon

  

  When the Euro was set up, they knew it was a fraught proposition, binding themselves to each other financially. The Germans in particular, fearful about giving... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Christians, Gays, and Sin

  

  Even before the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, I wrote that gays (and the left in general), having basically won this fight, should ease up and be... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Introverts Versus Extroverts – A Personal Take

  

  Are you an introvert or extrovert? I sure know which I am. (Why do you think I’m sitting here by myself writing a blog?)One of my book groups has read Susan... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY