Category: politics
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Emancipation Proclamation
Something to behold–odd “white male rage”?In this more enlightened day and age?Poised on such a precarious stageStartled, our threatened environmentSighs while veering toward retirement!Time “tick tocks”, imploring improvement.Evolution! Welcome its movement.Peace on Earth… ~ Susie Sexton (the poet in me trying a POEM, thus a POET TRY so my soul relaxes and feels happy?) P.S.…
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please reTHINK?
Open Letter: REGARDING THE DEER CULLING… REGARDING THE DEER CULLING SCHEDULED FOR NOV. 13, 14, 26 and 27, maligning our state’s parks’ system (read the story by clicking here): This truly needs to be stopped. We do believe fewer “state parks” are participating in this “operation” this year–we did our best last “season” to protest.…
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Remember that this Earth …
I am extremely disappointed that the votes of a large and burgeoning portion of Rep. Marlin Stutzman’s constituency do not matter to him. His advocacy for deregulation of the farm “industry” is revelatory of self-interest and the resultant desire to please only a certain segment of voters in order to assure his election to office.…
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Dear Congressperson
I oppose H.R. 4089: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 because…hunting is unquestionably profit-making violence…over-reproduction of wild-life (not to mention farm “life”) is promoted by DNR agencies to keep the money flowing…400 million bucks (pardon the pun) generated annually in our state and 2300 jobs for relatives…all due to “hunting” which is rationalized every which way…
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EACH EVE WITH STEVE
How do I love him? Let me count the ways: Sparkling eyes—not dim, Piercing as they gaze. Strong chin, classic nose, Svelte frame, graceful stride! I admire the pose Which can barely hide Jabs at nasty foes— Conservative pricks Marching us to Hell Who deserve brave kicks Or a “punny” yell! Brave super-hero Battling grizzly…
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Please, Lord, do not force me to choose…
EDITOR: Okay, as I view a Facebook profile photograph of my pal, handsome Paul Helmke, I feel courageous enough to offer up this “prayer”: Please, Lord, do not force me to choose between two Hoosier gubernatorial candidates (Republican “Mike” Pence and maybe Democrat John Gregg) who are feigning evangelical tendencies and gun enthusiasm simultaneously not…
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Exeunt
START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME!!!!!Don’t leave me a note…“I’ll be gone,” she wrote!Save lives while I’m gone.In our “Must Care Zone”Known as Facebook land ·…Where hearts take a stand As we “cross-post”, “share” In our “active” prayer. Thanks for your friendship. Goin’ on a trip.
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“Here I Do Be With Hat in Hand” – An Ode to the Campaign
a poem???? here i do be with hat in hand… imploring that you understand…. that for some unknown patriotic reason… hubby wishes to become a small town mayor for a season. he loves all people everywhere… me? for animals i mostly care. he’s a conservative republican cat… i’m a progressive, free-thinking democrat…. stop by this…
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ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN….
Knee-jerk loyalty to either political party lurks far behind me now. Seriously considering the possibility of returning to that sensible life-style of the Native American Indian pre-dating this continent’s getting messed up beyond redemption–stolen from those who subsisted/coexisted peaceably compatible with the planet. “Simplicity is an acquired taste,” wrote author Katharine Fullerton Gerould. “Mankind, left…
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WORDS TO THE NON-PARTISAN WISE
British author Elizabeth Charles wrote at the turn-of-the-century: “To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers.” FDR cut a swath through bickering and dissension as he moved straight forward…
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BEAT ME DADDY– 13 TO THE BAR or PRAISE SLITHERS A ONE-WAY STREET THUS FAR
“Lord, why’s all of fickle LIFE this persistent scramble?” “It is written…in the constitution’s preamble!” “Heathens’ roll call lists females, Arabs, and freed up minds.” “Heritage, bigotry, isolation–all that blinds.” Forced conversation with a power so divine, supreme– Wilts, defeats, seldom ever fulfills. Much rather scream! Measured syllables, sans internal rhyme, squash free verse. As…
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SETTING OURSELVES APART
What have I read via local news sources this past week? “Harvesting” deer even though those animals may harbor “bovine tuberculosis”? “Locally grown meat” is best? (I kid you not.) Legislating “social” issues? “Wars” have assured us our freedoms? Mistrust and fear and contentiousness should rule our foreign policies? Program our children to become suspicious, judgmental, and damagingly…
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FOLDING NEWSPAPERS–Pulp Fiction OR Reality?
Why are newspapers reducing the voice of the people to American Idol status, with SIMON Legree types comfortably yet precariously poised at the top kowtowing to whichever side provides the most revenue while encouraging on-lookers via sophomoric surveys to hoist thumbs up or down? BTW, don’t forget to pre-pay for your obituary. Our currently raw wound of a…
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Waiting to Exhale
Home-town hypocrisy, within my Hoosier state, daily reaches ever higher levels so severe as to be indigestible. Folks impersonate soldiers renamed oxymoronic “prayer warriors”. When refraining from pretentious extolling of mysterious galaxies of heavens or hells as well as of famed halls of gods or goddesses, consider yourself outside the loop or sphere of influence. An individual thinker is either misunderstood or downright condemned. Third world, primitive…
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COLOR MY WORLD? Please Don’t.
Michael Moore’s most recent film, CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY, successfully informed, enlightened, provoked debate and promoted his own brand of propaganda. Currently, assuming a solitary, independent-minded and thoughtful stance, whether on film or via broadcasting or in print, conjures up the obsolete, extinct DODO bird. Impressions gained through living life, and rubbing shoulders with others, are colored by biases which stick to us on this journey. We…
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Let’s have no more crocodile tears, please
Tally up how many times television correspondents uttered, “Now, for this next segment you may wish to leave the room” in one viewing day recently. Teasing us. When is news coverage informative, enlightening — and at what juncture do reporters and viewers or readers become nosy buzzards circling around grisly, gory “racetracks,” secretly hoping to…
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A Poem to the Editor
Politicians, one and all, Listen to this wake-up call: Legislators overstep contracts with voters! Morality corrects itself, pompous doters! Substances smoked, driving while drunk, couplings gone wild. NON-ISSUES hammered–yet comparatively mild. Wars rage! Education stalls! Economies fail! Newspapers fold, postal systems teeter, banks bail. Avoid harsh judgment of the masses’ “behavior”. Tend to your knitting. …
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Corruption, Scandal & Paybacks … business as usual
Brylcreem! “A little dab’ll do ya!” Illinois ‘ Governor Milorad Blagojevich, replicating the JFK coiffure to maximum effect while behaving as the antithesis of Alabama ‘s former Governor George Wallace, presents himself as one refreshing politician. Like it or not, dis-allowing Roland Burris admittance to the U. S. Senate Chambers conjures images of innocent school…
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An indecent proposal?
How about picking and choosing during this confusingly kaleidoscopic grab-bag election? The following winning quartet would resurrect our country: Mac as the father-figure president married to independent-minded First Lady Michelle Obama, both relying upon Senator Hillary Clinton serving as veep, and all three buoyed up by the presence of perky Governor Sarah Palin dubbed resident…
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What good are ‘railroads’ without engineers?
Granted, I do not understand grants. This robbing of Peter to pay Paul circular activity gains a sterling reputation certainly among grant-writers, whose audiences consist of tax-payers who have evidently contributed enough revenue that sums lay within treasure chests all across the land, just waiting for extraction–our money–from us! According to a city councilman Tuesday…
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what’s looming?
what’s looming? local tax-payers forking over 25 grand for a study to be matched with a la la land grant to perform some EXTENSIVE highway and entrance work for parkview hospital to be built where paul zumbrun used to live? geesh, as soon as the sextons come up with that same amount out of our…
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Media Medea
Darling, perky, bubble-head work-out queen Bestest runner-up ‘Laska’s ever seen Terminator of all fuzzy wild-life Snow-mobiling mommy causing fresh strife Whacks Charlie Darwin-touts Adam ‘n Eve Finish that tangled web once “gals” conceive Cart-wheeling right-to-lifer blows off CHOICE Feminine lemmings chant-cheer in one voice HER God creates pipe-lines, bans naughty books Gentlemen voters adore her …
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Previously Sabotaged Alert
Opinion page debates rage on, blaring out one side or the other. New school building? Same old school-house? Alternative energy resources versus fossil fuels. Barack or “Mac”? Usually somebody somewhere registers offense, or, at the very least, complains of trampled toes. Recently, an analytical letter of generalized opining got lost in the (e-)mail or in…
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Conflict Resolution?
Blue or yellow? Signs intersect as canvassers galore Plead, “In with the new…”; replace another forlorn eyesore. Money’s no object? Fluid statistics? Arguments all! Children pay sharp attention to our building of each wall.
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Untapped Resources
Darling two-term Governor Jennifer Granholm, an exceptional Michigander who has surmounted several notable hurdles, introduced former presidential candidate Al Gore who then endorsed Sen. Barack Obama at the massively attended Detroit Rally on a recent mid-June evening. Why might this heavily credentialed Harvard graduate, Granholm, seem to have pantomimed her remarks before the eager throngs…
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North Carolinians and Indianans share a chance to make or break history
A Hoosier’s advice to Tarheels during Race ’08: Truman and “Ike” introduced a large portion of us “boomers” to the political world of spirited competitions in hot pursuit of the White House. One “last hurrah” arrives via this present phenomenal contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. Such tremendous and obvious excitement permeates the land! Though…
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La Dee Da!
La Dee Da! Can see it now! Obama’s promising candidacy delivers alright as a lovely concept which, thus far, CANNOT be maligned. Logistically, though, the democratic party veers toward shouts of “Foiled again!” Why? McCain’s vice-presidential pick seems evident–Colin Powell! Another ultra-progressive dem bites the dust. Centrist Hillary surely feels very like Alice hurtling down…
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The Demise of Huntley, Brinkley, Cronkite and Sevareid
We democrats wish to halt the Iraqi skirmish, reverse No Child Left Behind, stabilize the price of oil, address the war on the middle class, advance stem-cell research as well as rejuvenate scientific break-throughs, acknowledge the threat of global-warming, deal fairly with the immigration issue, solve the mortgage crisis, tax-trounce those privileged 1% of the…
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Life’s Imitation of Art or vice versa?
Regarding NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD (inspired by Upton Sinclair’s 1927novel, OIL!), and IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (based upon actual events), eager consumers/customers queue up at bookstore cash registers, movie ticket box offices, and DVD rental shops for doses of violence–or enlightenment? Daily, the senselessness of human cruelty is thrown…
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Have we evolved not a whit?
While spring cleaning as well as monitoring this wacky presidential campaign, that proverbial “truth is stranger than fiction” adage surfaces in my thought processes. It has been disconcerting enduring the narrow-mindedness and mean-spiritedness of other extreme camps of thought for seven years now. Actually, religiosity has no place in politics outside of swearing in via…
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Well, there you go again!
Dearest Hillary, Well, there you go again! Winning yet another debate! Your all-encompassing knowledge of facts, daily current events, statistics, the ever-changing political landscape, crucial issues which matter to us all, and how to score points in significant discussions/debates impresses this voter continually! The televised exchange in Austin, Texas, allowed you once again to demonstrate…
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Stop the madness
Stop the madness! Message to newscasters, magazine editors, fashion pundits and entertainment gossip-mongers: Please refrain from forced comparisons stacking up fabulous Michelle Obama alongside fantastic Jackie Kennedy, both portraits of perfection revealing two distinctly different, spectacularly mesmerizing personalities. Do not minimize the allure and limitless potential of Obama, downgrading her charms to retro-competitiveness with Kennedy.…
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Here is another modest proposal
Believe it or not, some do-gooders wish to outlaw cigarettes but hold forth that since our newly elected president smokes, such a prohibition will never occur. Let’s prioritize other possible illegalities. Outlaw booze (again), adultery, giving birth to too many children, control-freakism, obsession with money, mental cruelty, schoolyard bullying, big-brother complexes, slaughter of meat-producing animals,…
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1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
[Written during 2008 Democratic Primary] Congratulations to those who may finally grudgingly acknowledge the pathetic duplicity of candidate/politician Barack Obama. I supported his candidacy for nearly three weeks in the early autumn, not that his performance even then took precedence over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s consistent mastery of all of the debates. Disenchantment truly set in…
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Marriage dinosaur?
Didn’t the Apostle Paul, a bachelor, originate the universal concept of the sanctity of marriage for, quite simply, economic purposes and crowd control? That’s what anchor and commentator Peter Jennings reported several years ago, when he explained, via a bold telecast, the human need for a Messiah and hyped St. Paul ‘s role as the…
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Mounting anxieties require self-control
“God of Carnage,” a 2009 Tony-garnering Broadway play, shares much in common with Eugene O’Neill’s 1928 Pulitzer-prize winning script, “Strange Interlude.” Both literary creations teach us something about ourselves while also impressing audiences as reflective of this time in which we live. Their messages? Common decency and respect for others demand considerably more willpower than…
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Susie, In a Sense…a Broad!
As I consider myself nothing nor nobody more than Peter Sellers in Being There or at my liveliest as Inspector Clousseau, it is difficult to make “Susie” sound interesting? I am proudest of being the Mother of Roy, whom I consider the person I would most wish to be. I grew up in a very…
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ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
Congrats! Record, “I’m born!” From Mommy’s arms one’s torn. Snips, snails, puppy dog’s tails? Sugar, spice, nice. No males. Hitchcock called all, “Cattle!” Brando challenged, “Battle!” Actors recite their lines. “World’s a stage.” Stand in lines. Be macho, macho! Man! Create monsters we can. Female deer, doe-too bad. No more fun to be had. Bob…
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SO, TELL US, WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
Youthful indiscretions? Oh, so many! I recall co-starring in STOP THE WORLD–I WANT TO GET OFF while in my twenties. I portrayed the long-suffering wife, as well as multiple mistresses, of a philandering, self-obsessed politician, and the two of us sang to each other for two and 1/2 hours. My ambitious husband, Mr. Littlechap of…
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DIVERSIONARY GIBBERISH
Hey there! Cap ‘N Cork, Cap ‘N Trade/Spend, Cap ‘N What? Adequate Insurance desired? You’re just a nut! WORK for a living–jobs with perks dime a dozen. Not true? Try moving in with your long-lost cousin. Prez, forget about Iraq and Great Depression. Pose and speak daily for press photo op session: “Single pay, universal,…
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Does ANYBODY Ever Feel Our Pain?
Feel a song coming on! OR a fable, parable, fairy tale…since I don’t wish to injure anybody’s feelings. Allow me to illuminate a local problem, perhaps a universal one. This is a story of two councils as well as of some sorts who opine that it might be “good to be (Mel Brooksian) king”. It’s…
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Slam Bam?
Slam Bam? No, thank you! Actually, our young president deserves admiration occasionally. I recall my genuine, though short-lived, marvel and eagerly anticipated satisfaction in three areas: his initial firm stances on–shirking blind-faithed, regimented, patriotic displays of reverence which would have served only for crowd-pleasing “show”; clinging to his respect for a truth-telling preacher; and recognizing…
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State of the Union
Life forces fluctuate, ever surprising. Harness weather? Impossible downsizing. Prevent animosities? Only through prayer. Differing philosophies normal, not rare. Pretentiously uninformed profess: “We’ve CHOICE !”??????? (Analyze lectures preached by dictator’s voice.) Freedom’s assured within independent mind. Forced group-think consistently topples mankind.
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BLENDED HUMANITY–A Noble Goal
When talented, charismatic, wholesome, young Tiger Woods burst onto the scene, I followed his televised career on the links, read all of the magazines and books, clipped out newspaper articles to savor forever, named my cat after him, and bought a bobble-headed version of the cute golfer. What a gentleman! Upon startled completion of twice…
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GRANDMOTHER CLAUSES–INSIGHTFUL OR INCITEFUL?
Try though I may, I cannot resist responding to this week’s political news-hot-flashes! These latest revelations surely should strike us voters as unfortunately routine occurrences. Yes–thinking that our government is long overdue to fall into the capable hands of weary post-menopausal ladies wearing pantsuits and who entertain no romantic designs whatsoever upon their youthful male…
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DEAR JFK
DEAR JFK: Sorry for the delay in thanking you for your genius expertise during the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was too young to realize that with ONLY TWO WEAPONS, your masterful patience and razor-sharp mind, you saved our world from total mass destruction. We should all be quite grateful for your…
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Rat Packs, Hoosier Lobbyists, & Blind Boys!
True, I seem to qualify as a participant in a “clique” of folks a bit more advanced in age, experience and hard-won wisdom…who also specialize in nostalgic FUN! For instance, classmate Dr. Harry Staley notified me that he often accompanied his dad after sunset to assist in repairing the Blue Bell factory’s countless sewing machines. Don York shared that Harry’s dad, Harry, Sr.,…
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THE GAME OF LIFE? NO CONTEST! My Attempt at CATharsis — Meow! =^..^=
“Gentlemen, start your engines!” Seriously, if I qualified as a gentleman, I would refuse to start my engine. Not unlike Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Katharine Hepburn, or Sacheen Littlefeather, with regard to races and/or contests and/or competitions, I am a non-believer. Fighting others to win laurels is an unattractive, pointless endeavor and significant maybe only…
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… A Life in MEMES
I now think in memes. Computer life has completely overtaken my brain in our new Orwellian culture. What’s a meme you ask? According to Wikipedia (does anyone own … or edit … REAL encyclopedias anymore?!?): “A meme (/ m iː m / MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within…
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, MOVE OVER!
An Op-Ed Rhyming Essay and Collection of Scattered Random Thoughts, Questions, & Current Events for Our Time “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” ~ David Brinkley Tweeting a bloggy podcast thingie now, and my muted show follows for all the…
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“THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS” — Navigating in a Sea of Zombies
“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” “The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it’s all in the story.” “It’s an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.” ~ Robert Redford Linked…
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INTUITION AND INSTINCTS AND BUMBLE BEES! OH, MY!
“What happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep!” ~ current Supreme Court nominee As I lounged sleepily on a lawn chair three summer seasons past, I devoured a ROLLING STONE article about this blondish fellow named Donald Trump, a guy presently stacked in my musty basement, he being featured on umpteen PEOPLE Magazine covers highlighting zippy, scandal-hinting essays…
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RACHEL AND THE STRANGER — a “Current Events” Poem, plus a Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Too (the Past in Prose!)
“Donald Trump should build his wall out of Hillary Clinton’s emails since no one ever can seem to get over them!” (borrowed from cute and witty Chicago friend Barb’s Facebook page where she can be seen hugging her dear friend Rahm Emanuel!) Been penning a “nostalgia” column for nearly a decade! Thought I’d recycle a fun previous backyard escapade— The…
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TRANSITIONS–“Through the Decades”
Quite like a restless King Tut, I yearned to avoid a rut. Wide-eyed, toured a marketplace so Victorian Everything everywhere, yet no DeLorean! Repurposed bricks, mortar — transformed from Presbyterian church– Its irony hurled me into conflicted “museum” lurch. Realizing tombs, spires, stained glass, pyramids and kitty cats Cannot be “taken with you” unto the great hereafter–(RATS!)…
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PET PEEVISHNESS…PLUS THE REDEEMING GLORIES OF THE CAT IN THE BOX
“I’d be a terrible superhero. I’d see the signal calling in the sky from home and be like, ‘I literally just sat down.’ ” Credit: darling fellow blogger Beth Kennedy! People who bore us all with their pet peeves? THOSE very dopes are MY pet peeves. Granted that life overflows with inconveniences, annoying humans, political shenanigans,…
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DISILLUSIONMENT – PIPE DREAMS, PUPPET MASTERS & POPPYCOCK!
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die: whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.“ ~ Gilda Radner “If a man does not keep pace with his own companions, perhaps he hears a different drummer. Let him step…
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ESCALATORS, AGITATORS, VARIOUS HEELS, VILLAINOUS REELS, CEILINGS OF GLASS, PLENTY OF SASS!
Urban Dictionary: nelipot “Top Definition. nelipot. One who walks without shoes; one who goes barefoot. The nelipot walked slowly, letting the mud squeeze up between his toes.” SURE, SURE, I drove over to Ft. Wayne, Indiana for Tarantino’s HATEFUL EIGHT–in the dead of winter! I became submerged…immersed beyond redemption…inside realistic, gritty, merciless cowboy land and…
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GUILTY PLEASURES During This Presidential Election Year of Living Dangerously
Fortuitously this past Sunday evening, I received an email parable from a shirttail relative, a beautiful lady who played championship bridge internationally and who is the mother of a talented musician and was once married to a Sexton and taught ballroom dancing…I love Bev whom I have not seen in several decades. She sends me…
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UPTON SINCLAIR, LET’S RAKE MUCK ONE FINAL TIME – To Restore Biodiversity
Thankfully, an increasingly dwindling number of Homo sapiens seem to be revealing these days that they remain unfathomably ignorant, foolishly stubborn and downright awful about an appropriately changing world. Well, hoo-ray for diminishing stats and fewer and fewer dim bulbs! Vacuous apathetic dead-heads and sniggering bullies certainly sense that they are on the losing end…
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Disillusionment -Writer’s Block, Christmas 2014
Brothers Duncan(evsky) not posing in southern Russia but in Duncan, South Carolina the town in which these displaced Scotsmen all were born – Bill, Esso Gas Station owner; Linder, WW II veteran; Roy, Wrangler Jeans Manufacturer; Mac Clifford Duncan, WWII Army Air Corps Veteran (CBI, China, Burma, India) and a member of 10th ABCD and…
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THIS IS THE LIFE: BLOGS & DOGS!
Attorney and former neighbor Earl Tison, whom I desired to adopt the moment I met him, exclaimed frequently, “Susie, if anybody should start a blog, it would be you!” Computer-less at that particular time, I had no concept of precisely what he might be suggesting, as a consequence of myriad moon-light porch chats at his…
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COMPETITIONS, CONTESTS, PIPSQUEAKS & POPPYCOCK
“Great poem, let’s publish it! Sue…Imagine your poem featured on a page by itself within a beautiful coffee-table edition! You are a semi-finalist for a major prize!” Prices for leather-bound editions ranged from $49.95 to $194.00 depending upon how many enhancements such as photographs, bios, and vanity-illustrations might be added? “Society of World Poetry”…
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“LET IT NEVER BE FORGOT…” *
My “rite of passage” from age 12 to nearly seventy Boasts inclusion of a collection labeled “Kennedy”… Magazines: LIFE, LOOK, NEWSWEEK, TIME, SATURDAY EVENING POST… My mammoth old trunk filled with ghost after valorous ghost! Bookshelves lined with biographies of Profiles in Courage Starting with Honey Fitz — a patriotic entourage! Dawning upon me a…
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RONALD REAGAN’S JELLY BEANS & MY FAVORITE DENTAL APPOINTMENT EVER
Certainly, I am at that grand advanced age of entitlement! I deserve to savor jelly beans even more than I once did as a kid, so I visit Dr. Jim McConnell and his beautiful assistant Trudy (Sullivan) Deutsch about four extra times between each biannual smile maintenance effort performed by dental hygienist, and proud mother to…
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We Only Own One TV, and My Husband Hid Gloria Steinem’s HBO Documentary from Me on Super-Bowl Sunday
“In a world full of people who couldn’t care less, be someone who couldn’t care more.” ~ Author Unknown Here I sit. Here I have sat always. In the center of farmville. In the center of gothic religious-ville. In the center of adultery-ville. In the center of hunting … for easy casual red-neck rough sex. …
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May the True “Salty Dog” Win the 2012 Race…
President Barack Obama qualifies for my vote to be sure! I supported Hillary Clinton in 2008; eventually “Barry” won my heart and most recently impressed me mightily with his acceptance speech at the 2012 DNC. However, I am open-minded enough to appreciate the poise, charm and good lucks of Mitt Romney in spite of his…
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HEY, Y’ALL! NO SUCH ANIMAL AS A “CIVIL” WAR…
Allow me to explain myself. I am located at the conclusion of a lengthy direct line of lineage piled up with (Carolina) Southern Dixiecrats and talcum-powdered ladies. I’ve lived my life as the lone Damned Yankee seeking to cauterize subtle family dissensions and outrageous stereotypical mind-sets, as in “enough is enough!” I admit that I judge…
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Headed Toward an iPADDED Cell?
Headed toward an iPADDED cell — Carly Simon’s VAIN fresh new HELL! Intervention’s around the bend. Let’s admit defeat, friend to friend. Facing each other in real time, Oh, abandon the “pantomime”! Technology’s fun and quicker, But we’re too drunk on THIS liquor? All that I ever required of a clunky old manual typewriter and…
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How Many Roads Must a Person Walk Down?
“How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind…” ~ B. Dylan Slap. Spank. WAAAAAAH. Boy? Girl? Free will? Predetermined fate? Conform? Challenge the status quo? Live until you die? Hide yourself…
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Marriage of Minds
“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray Abigail Adams served as the noteworthily supportive, possibly nagging partner whom John sorely needed in order to excel as THE quirky, feisty, successful John Adams and to lead America to greatness. She purportedly advised him to fly by the…
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Cornerstones, Time Capsules, Freemasons, and Five Cent Cigars
Thomas Riley Marshall might have good-naturedly joked that rather than a “big fish in a little pond”, he managed to become a “little fish in a big pond” in Washington, D.C., as Vice-president of the United States during two terms from 1913 until 1921. He notably spoke humbly of himself, going on record as the…
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Second Thoughts
Thomas Wolfe discovered that he could never “go home again” to his mother’s Asheville boarding house in North Carolina after becoming famous for candid record-keeping of his youthful experiences within that Southern community. James Dean and his LIFE photographer got denied access to the Fairmount Junior-Senior prom, held at Jimmy’s former high school, for a…
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“I can relate…a Donkey Tale situated between a rock and a hard place”
Succinctly stated, one is “damned if one does and damned if one doesn’t” attempt to articulate formulas for reversal of the goofy decline of our nation. Evan Bayh, maybe some folks “hardly knew ye”, but I met you 47 years ago during the final year of JFK’s presidency. You cheerfully walked beside each of your…
Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels 