Only 4 more days until Election Day!Thank goodness. I don't know about you, but I just can't wait for it to be over and done with. In all deference to our hallowed democratic election process, it has been a most harrowing and dreadful experience for me. What about you?Simply put, the election process is WAY TOO LONG! I ran marathons in my prime …
Rashomon was an iconic 1950 Japanese movie wherein a number of eye witnesses to a horrendous event each had a different version as to what happened. The Rashomon effect is contradictory interpretations of the same event by different people. It is said that the effect is not only based on differences in perspective, but occurs where such difference …
On June 9, 1954, during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in Washington, D.C. Joseph Welch, Chief Counsel for the United States Army, had had just enough and famously said "until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness....have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"Have you had just enough?
Last week we had our semi annual Lefty Lunch (where, for once, we could sit and eat comfortably anywhere at the table) at the Friars Club. At the Lefty (handedness, not politics) Lunch we commiserated re being the last unrecognized downtrodden minority.I, for one, am passionate about having being left off the waves of our Nation's affirmative actio …
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