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• The App Generation

  

  Maybe you’ve noticed a lot of folks fixated on their phones. Recently I saw some college kids at a bus stop, three fiddling with phones, the fourth not. “Hey... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Telling It Like It Is: My Presidential Campaign Speech

  

  My fellow Americans:I didn’t want to run for president, but alas now I must. Mr. Trump supposedly “tells it like it is.” Unfortunately he – and other... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Of Quantum Mechanics, Cabbages, Kings, and Carpets

  

  Astronomer Arthur Eddington said the universe is not just stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine. I’ve written about the biggest question:... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Michael Gerson on Obama’s Syria Disgrace

  

  I don’t normally “re-blog,” preferring my own words. But Michael Gerson’s latest column about Syria says it better than I could (click here).That photo of the... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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