Start Date: September 16, 2025 It was shortly after September 11, 2025 that I found myself thinking about the time that has passed and the societal changes in America, some expected and some unimaginable. If you are an American, of age 40 or over, this is a...

  Start Date: July 19, 2026 “MacArthur Park” is a song written by singer-songwriter Jimmy Web in the 1960’s. While first recorded by Richard Harris, you may associate it with the soaring vocals of the late disco queen Donna Summer. I never made much sense of it....

  Start Date: August 10, 2025 I have heard that “Fear Not” and “Be Not Afraid” are among the most common statements made in the Bible. Still there are many things to fear and sometimes it is easy to just be afraid. But I would like to try and assuage some...

  Start Date: May 31, 2026 In a previous post “You Gotta Have Friends” [1] I wrote about the, perhaps disproportionate, effort given to finding out who provided ketamine to Matthew Perry, resulting in his accidental drowning. Given his four decade history of...

  Start Date: May 31, 2026 If you are aware of western pop culture you are probably at least passingly familiar with Matthew Perry, the actor who portrayed Chandler Bing on the 1990’s SitCom “Friends”. Sadly he died of drug related issues in 2023. By all accounts...

  April 2, 2026 WOMEN’S SPORTS In March of 2026 the International Olympic Committee announced that biological men (XY) would not be allowed to compete in women’s sports as they have a physical advantage [1]. If you have been in a coma anytime from the beginning...

  Start Date: April 27, 2026 In the Christian Bible there are four books in the New Testament known as the Gospels. While written after most of the other books, they are the ones that tell the story of Jesus’ life on Earth. Three of them, Matthew, Mark, and Luke,...

  Start Date: February 2, 2026 No. That isn’t a typo. I am not speaking of the Roman general. I am speaking of Cesar Chavez. On March 31 our country will acknowledge Cesar Chavez Day. He, along with former Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, is among the...

  Start Date: February 16, 2026 In the world of politics a change of position held by a candidate or a party is often referred to as a “flip-flop.” Times change, budgets change, opinions change. But the transition I am observing of late has been so sudden,...

  Start Date: November 27, 2025 Baby boomers may remember the TV drama “Mission Impossible” with its tense theme music and eclectic characters. Each episode began with the lead of an elite group of covert agents receiving a tape (a recording device from late 20th...

Start Date: October 18, 2025 THE CELEBRATIONS Early October 2025 it was announced that a peace deal had been orchestrated by President Donald Trump’s administration to allow for the return of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza and hopes for some quiet in that part...

  Start Date: October 17, 2025 Is it me? I am in the age bracket for cognitive decline, but I hope not yet dementia. Hard to tell. There are the names and words that seem to be gone without clues. Worse seems to be the attention deficit. Where are things? Did I...

  Start Date: September 16, 2025 Iryna Zarutska. She came for the American dream and it ended as an American nightmare. A beautiful young girl from Ukraine. She survived the Red Army attacks. But she couldn’t survive a progressive American city in North Carolina....

  StartDate: March 31, 2023 I was reading a history article the other day. It was about the downfall of society and had all of the familiar concepts. Here are some of the highlights, or perhaps lowlights.  See if these ring a bell. GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION Here in...

  Start Date: Late July 2025 In real estate they say it is all about “Location, location, location.” The same can be said about media as well. Recently, July 28, 2025, there was a mass shooting in Manhattan inside a major office building [1]. A TV journalist made...

  Start Date: May 4, 2025 Home robberies in Los Angeles have been escalating in frequency and intensity over the decades. Twenty years ago a midday walk in the San Fernando Valley could be safely taken with a side door left unlocked. That ended some time ago....

  Start Date: April 23, 2025 NO. Not that. Credit to Greg Gutfeld (don’t sue me I don’t get income from this blog) for stating that the 21st century N word is “NAZI” It is now used by the political left as casually and with the same venom as the original word was...

  Start Date: April 23, 2025 In her brief 2024 presidential campaign Kamala Harris had a slogan “We Are Not Going Back” She was never clear about anything, but I imagine it may have referred to abortion and a ruling that sent the laws back to the states, as...