by admin | Mar 24, 2012 |
Oh, controversy. Get thee behind me. Yes, I know a lot of you are, shall we say, not completely of open mind about the issue of gun ownership, but I am, nevertheless, compelled to speak my mind on the subject. I am myself a gun owner having a Browning 20 gauge secreted somewhere at my ranch. I even have some shotgun shells around, but I can only find them when I have no use for them. A few years ago in a fit of excessive gun safety, I bought and installed a trigger guard, and promptly lost the key. I’ve hunted off and on since the age of twelve, but not distinguished myself at it, and during my brief military career, I qualified, or at least shot, ...
by admin | Mar 15, 2012 |
In Cuba, every one calls him Fidel as if they not only know him, but have a personal relationship with him. In a way, they do. He has cast a long shadow over the island and those who live there or lived there at one time. He has, directly or indirectly controlled almost every aspect of their lives. Those who live in Cuba today depend on Fidel and his regime for their livelihood, their well being and even their sense of self worth. Those who are Cuban, but have left Cuba are, for the most part sustained by their hatred of him and a desire for revenge that transcends reason. Fidel was born to the middle class in Cuba, but he, of course, rejected class in...
by admin | Mar 13, 2012 |
The thing about history is that no one really knows what happened because you weren’t there to see it with their own eyes. Yes, I know, there are those strange folks (called historians) who study the evidence and write what they think happened. I’m certainly no historian, but that’s what I’m going to do for the next several paragraphs, give you my version of what happened in Cuba. You can believe it or not. In the beginning there were the indigenous peoples that for some reason we now call Arawaks. I’ve got no idea where they came from or how they got there. In any case, they lived here and multiplied presumably eating such as there was to be found in...
by admin | Feb 24, 2012 |
I said I’d never do it but I did. I watched another episode of the long running political comedy called The GOP Primary Debates-2012. I can’t explain why I did it. There were some perfectly good basketball games on as well as some reruns of NCIS that I had only seen three or four times. I guess it must have been the Icarus effect. I won’t insult your intelligence by retelling the story of hubris and arrogance that led Icarus….suffice it to say, I couldn’t help myself. I knew I was going to have a problem with this one though because the field is now reduced to four, which means that each of them would have more time to talk. I don’t mind listening...
