Gratitude is the attitude

I am not a better person than I was a year ago. I’m fairly confident of that, and it’s a depressing realization. So many things in 2020 have aligned against having a positive mental attitude that it’s almost difficult to know where to start. Like...

Portland’s deadly July

City Council eliminates Gun Violence Reduction Team. Gun violence soars. Shocker. Portland’s deadly July: Domestic violence, suspected love triangle and gang retaliation among 15 killings – oregonlive.com: The tit-for-tat killings involve adversaries from...

The Roots Of Wokeness

Andrew Sullivan is a superb, important writer. I followed him avidly during his Daily Dish blogging years. So happy he’s returned with the Weekly Dish.  The Roots Of Wokeness – The Weekly Dish: And in this worldview, individuals only exist at all as a...

A defense of America and of Free Speech

I saw author Garry Kasparov, then world chess champion, speak at Stanford University in the ’90s. He’s a brilliant mind with interests far beyond the chessboard. America’s Mission – Persuasion: From the very beginning, that nation was rife with...