Getting Old Is Not For Sissies
As Ed H. said just having missed a three foot putt at age 83, “I’m just glad to still be on this side of the grass. He died three months later. Don’t worry, this is not about the inevitability of death. It’s worse. I’m going to write about what happens to a man-child as he enters the autumn of his life. This may not seem like such a big deal to the feminine segment of my limited audience, unless, that is, you happen to be married to one of us that is going through this particular slice of life, and groaning all the while. But to me, it’s a pretty big deal. I can still remember throwing a ball to home plate from center field on one bounce. I revel in the...Out of the Mouths of….
I’ve been watching political town halls late. Yes, I know that it’s geeky and more than a little strange. I would counter that it’s political theatre of the highest order. Wow. The anger, the finger pointing, the squinting of eyes, and yes, screaming and shouting. It makes you think that maybe we got the 1st Amendment wrong. None of us who are drawing breath and have electricity can have avoided images of citizens remonstrating, protesting, shouting, and arm waving at their political representatives, and the cameras lurking nearby at these so called Town Hall meetings. These gatherings were ostensibly intended to engage in a civil...Health Care: Socialized (Or Not)
This discussion must start with an affirmation of fundamental belief. Do the citizens of the United States have a right to affordable health care or not? I believe the answer is yes, but my belief is more rooted in a moral than legal point of view. Although our Declaration of Independence assures us that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are inalienable rights, there are more than a few American who would disagree that the right to affordable health care is not embraced in this statement of fundamental rights. I’m not going to mount an argument against them on this point, although I think they are wrong. I will simply say that all of our fellow...Cap ‘N Trade
There has been much hoo ha-ing about the American Clean Energy and Security Act recently passed by our esteemed House of Representatives. But as far as I can tell, no one really knows what it’s all about. In fact, the GOP minority leader (who was on his way back to the Rayburn building from a meeting of the Flat Earth Society) referred to the nine hundred page document as, “a pile of s**t”. Which I guess, could describe much of the legislation that’s been produced over the last two hundred years. That a republican would publicly disdain legislation Obama wanted is not surprising, and it’s not even surprising that he couldn’t explain what was in it, but it...