DAVID BROOKS
This article, written by David Brooks about a new book by George Packer of The Atlantic, struck me as a pretty good analysis of where …
TRUMP’S GREED
I am getting increasingly annoyed and frustrated by the U.S. media’s avoidance of mentioning Trump’s greed as the obvious, and sole, motivation for his actions. …
A DIFFERENT STRATEGY
In this blog, I should like to propose a different strategy for eradicating the blight on the United States that is called Donald Trump and …
LEWIS AND CLARK
An article appeared in the December 20, 2025 edition of The Economist which tracked the adventures of Lewis and Clark in their survey of the …
HUMAN EMPATHY
I was reminded during this Christmas season of two very special events that demonstrated human empathy at an unexpected level and in two completely different …
A CANADIAN OPINION
In the United States, we are bombarded on a daily basis with a multitude of downright frightening actions of Donald Trump, and so I thought …
AN ENGLISH OPINION
I am publishing “An English Opinion” to join the “Canadian Opinion” this week, both as commentary, from outside of the U.S., on Donald Trump. His …
WOMEN ARE NOT A MINORITY
Women are not a minority. I have never understood how the current leadership of “Woman’s Movement” has allowed itself to be subsumed, politically, into the …
VON TRAPP
The last living von Trapp child still helps run the family resort in the mountains of New England – a little piece of Austria, inspired …
WEIRDLY
The one line (queue) Americans (weirdly) choose to wait in, is the grocery self-checkout line, which is now often longer than the staffed ones. A …