Does your religious faith qualify – or disqualify – you from holding public office? Is what someone believes about god, afterlives, good and evil a key factor in whether you should vote […]
Retorts: Tests, sure, but not for religion
Retorts: Sit! Heel! Drop the toaster!
It’s back to school for kids (and teachers) in local schools, but they are not alone in pursuing arduous studies. We have enrolled our two unruly dogs in obedience training, and that’s […]
Retorts: You are where you shop for soda
Few experiences are so central to American life as going to the supermarket. Not everyone goes to church or temple. Not everyone goes to a school or a job. But sooner or […]
Retorts: Real back-to-school answers
You hear and read a lot about what might be wrong with education, about what needs to be changed, added, deleted or painted blue and turned over. I have many theories like […]
Time for Act Two at the malls?
Sometimes the problem becomes the solution, then the problem, then –maybe – the solution. The world is a wheel and not only does what goes around comes around, but if you wait […]
Memories make the past great again
One of the candidates for president has used as a slogan “Make America Great Again.” Without getting into a philosophical debate over the state of the nation, it did make me think […]
The sad summer of politics goes on
This is a political season and the weather is bound to get worse between now and Nov. 8. You will see, read, hear, and possibly repeat more applesauce in the next three […]
Relax, things are weird all over
In the classic Eighties TV show “Cheers,” there a line from the theme song that, amazingly, resonates with me during meetings of local city councils. “You wanna go where everyone knows/Troubles are […]
Pot, peace, prejudice and Pokemon
This is a week of great anxiety and light foolishness. Much of the nation is absorbed in reflection over whether recent shootings of and by police are tearing the country apart, while […]
