This is a very noble cause and I would like to thank K T Dodge for her impressive work script-writing, filming, editing and producing. As many of you may know I suffered from colon cancer last year. And about this time I was having rather nasty complications. As of July I am cancer free. Needless to […]

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The news business is usually a pretty ugly one. As the old saying goes, good news doesn’t sell newspapers. Something horrible happens and we get flooded with two or three days of coverage, then nothing! The story loses it’s top billing and everyone moves on to the next disaster, natural or man made.
Some stories though […]

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As a devoted fan of Stephen Colbert it would be easy for me to say that his newest offering - a 45-minute, self-indulgent song-and-dance Christmas special - is perfectly, Colbert-ly, hilariously, awesome and leave it at that. And, honestly, that would be a fairly decent summation of this Christmas special and everything else that Colbert gets […]

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As this sixth book in the series opens, the merry month of March has come to Blacklin County, Texas. Computers have come as well as Hack finally has one. Dispatcher for the small department, Hack has been pushing for a computer and all that one can do for years. Getting sued does have at least […]

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Mitch Mitchell died a few days ago of natural causes in his Portland, Oregon, hotel room, just days before he was to return to England after completing a Hendrix tribute tour. Most of the news stories about this event covered Mitchell’s membership in the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience, but one key detail was not mentioned. […]

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Clare Prentice has had quite a rough time for the last couple of years. In the aftermath of her Mother’s death, she soon is in the Doctor’s office nervously awaiting the results of a needle biopsy and other tests. Her mother, Rose, died of breast cancer and Clare is terrified that she has it as […]

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A few weeks ago I argued on Blogger News Network that there was a growing case for extensive intervention by Western Governments in the energy sector in general and in the oil industry in particular.
The candidates in the US Presidential Election all said that America must move towards energy independence and here in Western Europe, […]

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Ten atheism-promoting billboards will go up in Denver over the holidays and one in Colorado Springs; the message is simple: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” in white letters over background that shows a mostly-cloudy blue sky. These billboards are, reportedly being paid for by a Colorado atheist group but, since the […]

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Well I guess they needed someone to talk for Cindy and George Anthony because they have now hired a new spokesperson for them, Michelle Bart. She has organized a chance for the public to meet and greet the Anthony’s. WOW! I guess this would be your chance to meet the new wanna-be celebrities.
“I believe it’s […]

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On Veterans Day weekend, November 7-9, my husband and I attended the USO’s Salute to Our Troops event in New York City. In its second year, A Salute to Our Troops is a national program honoring the many faces of courage and inspiration belonging to individuals who demonstrate selfless dedication to our country. The program […]

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In the noisy and bitter aftermath of Proposition 8’s failure in California, national protests by gay and straight groups are sweeping the country.  The gay marriage issue isn’t really about marriage, it’s about homosexuality which, like abortion, is viewed by Christians as a moral issue and not a political one.
Morality, however, is a fruitless avenue […]

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Iraq — No Peace for Occupying Armies
Yesterday on the excellent Miami book fair program I heard Jeremy Scahill (Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army) make the obvious point that occupying colonial armies never achieve ‘peace’. Resistance is always there. See below for evidence of same in Iraq:
Shiite […]

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Obama and Politics in the Rough
Back during the start of the Kennedy years I had the rare privilege of working briefly with J. Raymond Jones, the “Harlem Fox,” who was a tough political leader — our dominant NYC one for a time — who reformed the sellout pols of Harlem and […]

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