On the last warm day in the Valley, before first snow the mountains, I drove up as high as I could through Lassen Volcanic National Park–over 8500 feet/2500 meters. In…
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This past week the world commemorated one of the grimmest anniversaries in human history—the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 people. Today is the 75th anniversary…
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Sardonically, though unwittingly, the devil’s own in the White House declares, “Houses of worship are essential places providing essential services. America needs more prayers not less.” King Donald decrees, “I…
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In my case the adage, “you can’t go home again” is literally true. However not long before my 93-year-old father died, I asked him who would carry Michigan in 2016,…
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke When President Trump flew in for a photo-op after…
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The loudest dog I’ve ever heard is the often-neglected Labrador of the lunkheads living behind me. Their roofline slopes in the opposite direction most houses do, which means there’s a…
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Few would argue that there is a political ‘failure of imagination’ in the Western world. Without putting imagination first (contemplative insight is primary), imagination, whether in art or politics, obviously…
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If I had any doubt that woolly-headed Democrats are just as responsible as heartless Republicans for America electing this cretinous president, it was removed by a young 40-year-old man from…