Too Little, Too Late?
When I was in Beijing, my tutor was a young lady who was one day younger than my son which, at that time, made her 20 years old. She was… Read more »
Category: Politics
Easy for me, hard for us all…
Here’s a warning up front: this post is political. The Republican vote to remove Representative Liz Cheney from her leadership position in the party is the final nail in the… Read more »
Well Worth the Try
I normally resolve to stay out of the political fray…and don’t worry, I still am here…but Ross Douthat often catches my eye as a reasonable moderate writer for the New… Read more »
Too Lazy to get the Job Done
Two items have come up in the early days of the Biden presidency that have caught my eye. The first is the tussle over the filibuster. Mitch McConnell was insisting… Read more »
All Over but the Crying…
I guess I should start with a warning that I’m kind of cranky and tired right now. And I suppose I’ll try to wrap up this line of thinking soon… Read more »
Real Law and Order. Real Courage.
I really enjoyed a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, The Daily, in which host Michael Barbaro interviewed newly-elected Michigan Republican Representative Peter Meijer about his vote to… Read more »
The Hard Work of Thinking
What a lot of people might not know is that, in addition to protecting the President, the US Secret Service is also the organization that deals with protecting the integrity… Read more »
Welcome to the New World
I’ve been meaning to write about K-Pop for quite some time, and a recent NY Times article reminded me…but not in a good way. I have never been one to… Read more »
The First Right
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya As I read a New York Times editorial this morning about… Read more »
Sorry, Mr. President
My apologies to the president. I’ve taken some moments for reflection and realized something just today – I’ve recently been rather hypocritical in my own position on things. While I’ve… Read more »