George Carlin (deceased) is in my all-time top three of funny people, if not number one. For me the other two are Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor (before he burned his face off). Chris Rock is very funny, and there are others, men and women, who thankfully make me...

The oft repeated call by conservatives for small government is puzzling. What exactly does that mean? Do they want our government to be run by a single bureaucrat perhaps working out of a broom closet in Fairbanks, Alaska? That would be small, and as appealing as that...

Here in America, we could paraphrase J.F.K’s words, as follows: We prefer the Rule of Law in the age of self-determination to unfettered lawlessness. America began in the historic fight for Self-determination known as the Revolutionary War. The desire to have our own...

My name is John Anon, short for John Anonymous, and I am the resurrected spirit of the British Inspiration for the Founding Fathers, John Locke. I have come back from the grave to put one or two things right that my cousin Q seems to have gotten wrong! It was recently...

A lot of otherwise intelligent people have been heard calling for two things in recent years, electing non-politicals and term limits. It seems we have little faith in the “politicians” we elect. Either we want the politicians we choose to come from a non-political...

For this essay, I invoke the muses of the recently deceased Desmond Tutu and of Nelson Mandela, who ushered in a period of reconciliation and healing in South Africa following apartheid. Reconciliation and healing works. Animosity and divisiveness do not. Proposed:...

Even if you are not a fan or say you hate symphonies, you should express appreciation for Ode to Joy. Beethoven was a prodigy as a boy, but he also wrote great music, like the 4th. and last movement of his 9th. Symphony, late in life when all but completely deaf. He...

How do you like my Christmas card this year? You see those beautiful snowy woods behind me? Doesn’t it remind you of that poem by Robert Frost? “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep….” Remember that one? You know, Christmas is less than a week away! Ho! Ho! Ho! As my...

First advisor and Step-brother Gary, came across something interesting and intending to give his friends a smile, sent out Opinion from a Former Judge via Text. At the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, some research ensued. The originating source of...

In an online debate about the meaning of the word liberal, I found myself typing back and forth with another participant. He had read Mark Levin, a commentator who is a couple of big steps above a lot of the conservative bloviators lurking around the infosphere. Mr....