“Bigger is better!” Well, that woke me up. I was sitting there in the Garden Grove City Council chambers enduring another Much-Longer-Than-They-Need-To-Be discussions and one councilman came out with that bit of […]
The news that wealthy people paid bribes to college coaches, admissions directors and others to get their otherwise unqualified children into “elite” universities should come as a blinding flash of the obvious. […]
There was a funny skit on “Saturday Night Live” in which a comedian portraying essayist George Will waxes poetic about the glories of baseball, but can’t even catch one tossed gently to […]
“Steeeeeee-rike!” “What? Are you blind? That ball was a foot over her head!” “Which game are you watching?” “You’ve got to be kidding!” The grass is sweetly new-mown and the thonk and […]
“More people, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much.” – P.T. Barnum If you want to know why our political world seems to be stuck in […]
OK, try these on. The Los Angeles Angels of Santa Ana/Garden Grove. University of Willowick. Willowick Acres. SOGG (South of Garden Grove). Getting a little silly here, I know, but the possibilities […]
“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember […]
That was the year that was … and frankly, it was not a 12-month parade of non-stop encouraging news of progress and harmony for the West Orange County area. As I look […]
Where does the time go? It fades away like your dad’s best jeans, as the song lyric goes. This is the last Retorts of 2018, so it seems appropriate to look back […]
These are dangerous times in our society, and especially for men. I don’t mean the recent rain, or the crowds and traffic that grow during this holiday season, I mean the […]
