Mean Girls

Mean Girls

Did you hear that the Women’s NCAA championship game drew a larger television audience, 18.9 million, than the men’s game? Women’s basketball used to be nothing more than a courtesy, while the main event was always men’s sports. Title IX...
Do We Have the Courage To Keep Our Country?

Do We Have the Courage To Keep Our Country?

The America that I knew regularly performed miracles. We put men on the moon, dug the Panama Canal, invented the atomic bomb, and created the transistor. There was no limit to what we could do. Nothing seemed impossible. Fifty years ago, the seeds of our destruction...
Accommodating Our Crazies

Accommodating Our Crazies

Somebody’s got to say it. It should be shockingly apparent to all that we worship our crazies more than the millions that actually carry the rest of us. Just today, I heard about an absurd new fad called ‘Bed Rotters.’ Bed Rotters are people who stay...
How the Grand Old Party Might Come to an End

How the Grand Old Party Might Come to an End

You only get a certain number of swings when you are at bat. The Republican Party is at bat and badly missing the ball. That’s according to millions of people who just see the Party stepping in it most of the time. It is not enough to try and do the right thing;...