Even in the face of treason, even in the face of sedition,  even in spite of violent ignorance;  The Great American Experiment...   continu...

Today is the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Which resulted in the United States entry into World War Two. A chain of even...

As we all sit and wait and wait… for the final certification of votes in Nevada and Pennsylvania  Or recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia,  as ...

It is going to be a very long two weeks... So in the interest of my own sanity, these will be my closing thoughts on the choice we as a nati...

It is no coincidence that the New York Times editorial board piece reads with the Cadence of the Declaration of Independence. It is worth re...

Wednesday October 7th, 1998 was a fairly ordinary day in Chicago. I was working for a small consulting firm in the near West suburb of Oak P...

One of the biggest criticisms of Donald Trump has been the lack of any clear national plan or stategy for dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic...

 As we all deal with the confinement and limits of a world in the grips of the  Covid pandemic,  I  look back across the last  three decades...

  (The following is an updated repost  of an entry from Sept. 11th, 2011) Today the media, and the blogosphere will undoubtedly be full of a...

Well it's finally the end of June... so we all know what  that  means...  Like  rainbow flags going  up on Market Street in San Francis...

As the United States  grapples with the  effects  of the  Covid-19 pandemic there have been a number of  cultural causalities.  One of the...

The words of the President of the United States, matter. Even the words of this President, matter a great deal, and that, is the problem. ...

Hey there folks... For the most part I have been silent on the 2020  US Presidential race, as I waited for the Democratic Primary process...

Back in 1982 a movie came out called  "Making Love".  It was the first major Hollywood movie to feature a gay love story as th...