Trumps claims, Napolitano claims, many claims there is espionage going on. The heads of agencies who should know claim there is no evidence. Who is telling the truth? Visions of clandestine meetings, smoke filled rooms and shadows in the night, cast our minds back to the days of Mata Hari, The Rosenberg’s, Major John André […]Read More
Note: Author Unknown Twenty years ago, in Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA’s convention. While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers […]Read More
The Loss of the Family
From the beginning of time, the nuclear family has been the basic social unit. It was true in the Garden of Eden and it is true today. While the family has transcended time and space, its context has changed over time. In the Hunter-Gatherer culture, the family was dependent on the interaction of the tribe. […]Read More
The Loss of Identity
I grew up before television, computers and a host of modern time occupying technological conveniences. Washing machines had wringers on the side. They did not go through cycles, they just sat there and swished. The real work was done by the housewife who attended them. The ice man came every other day and you put […]Read More
Political Insanity
We are surrounded once again with political insanity. Stay with me here… It has been attributed to Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard P. Feynman, Michio Kaku, Niels Bohr, Brian Greene, Austin O’Malley, Paul Dirac and others – that grand old saying – “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and […]Read More
Facebook has provided a way to block all political posts, or so I am told. Many are tired of the conflict and through with the droning on of right/left banter. OK, but let me define politics in my terms. Politics is the systems by which people in groups relate. That is, it has some structure […]Read More
I have long believed that what we believe is far more genetic than it is intellectual. It has to do with emotional predisposition and nature than it does with philosophical date that brings truth. We believe want we want to believe and want we feel good believing, rather than being objective observers of reality. Both […]Read More
We Are the Enemy of Ourselves
A Nation in Confusion I’ve long thought that what we believe to be true philosophically, is a matter of emotion rather than an objective discovery of fact. Of course we all like to think of ourselves as objective, accurate and honest about our discovery of reality, yet it is obvious that there are 50 million […]Read More