Greetings and Salutations; Last year, I wrote an essay on the issue of education in America. I covered many topics… Read more
Category: Politics
General political discussions
Sifting through the Ashes – Part 31. The SCOTUS and the Congress
Greetings and Salutations. The events of these past few years have caused me to rethink some aspects of Government. I… Read more
Ruth Bader Ginsberg – A Giant Leaves Us.
Greetings and Salutations; This last Friday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died, of metastatic pancreatic cancer. The fact that she held… Read more
Some thoughts on 09/11: Are we driven by fear?
Greetings and Salutations; Today is the 19th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Towers by fanatics that had… Read more
The Vietnam War – An American View
Greetings and Salutations; I was going to get this post written in April of this year, as a meditation on… Read more
The Results we get from a crappy educational system.
Greetings and Salutations; I had the following dialogue with a very young lady (who started reproducing very early in life)… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 30, The Postal Service
Greetings and Salutations… The closer we get to November, the more insane the actions of the administration become. Over the… Read more
Talking about Mental Health…And America
Greetings and Salutations; As I have touched on a number of times on this blog, mental health issues are a… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 29 – predicting the future???
Greetings and Salutations; I wanted to take a minute here, to look at the path the Republican Party is on…. Read more
Covid-19 Thoughts, Part 04…The FULL costs
Greetings and Salutations; Time has progressed since the first bunch of cases of this pandemic showed up in America. As… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 28, One More Cultist…
Greetings and Salutations; The other day, I posted an update about the Covid-19 issues to the FB Page devoted to… Read more
WHY is it that so many folks think education is crap in America?
Greetings and Salutations; Today, I had a short interaction with a local woman on FaceBook. I have quoted it below…. Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 27 – A Real Revolution?
I thought, when the ground-swell of protest after Mr. Floyd’s murder began, that this event might be the straw that… Read more
Covid-19 Thoughts, Part 02. Truth can be ugly and painful
Greetings and Salutations. Ran across the post on facebook just now. It is a long read, and a painful one…but,… Read more
Covid-19 Thoughts, Part 01
The current pandemic has had a striking effect on the world in general and America in particular. Along with the… Read more
Is Democracy Broken?
Greetings and Salutations… The title of this essay is a short version of a question asked in a philosophy group… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 26 – Humanity’s Future?
Greetings and Salutations… Today, on Facebook, a fellow asked an interesting question “Is there a future for Humanity?” When I… Read more
A Short Look at a Grifter’s Journey
This just showed up in one of the threads on my timeline, and I thought it worth spreading a bit… Read more
How to add some humor to one’s day!
Greetings and Salutations. I just had an interaction on Facebook that provided ME with a bit of amusement, and, once… Read more
Some Thoughts on History, War, and Gun Control
An interesting thread sprang up on Facebook a day or so ago…and I thought it worthwhile to extract some comments… Read more