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....

The Luddites were a loosely organized band of rabble rousers in England, mostly textile workers whose jobs were being replaced by more advanced and efficient weaving machinery. Instead of doing the difficult work of learning to co-exist with the new and emerging...

As a self-proclaimed American Nationalist, WinLoseorDraw has no sympathy for leaks that threaten American security by revealing sensitive national secrets to the world. However, the recently leaked Pandora Papers, and the Panama Papers leak in 2016, work to strengthen...

I wish my wallet came with free refills My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do As your friend, I will always pick you up when you fall, after I finish laughing Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow You'll...

Many people say, "It is not enough to just take a stand. Now we must demonize and destroy anyone who doesn't stand with us." Well, I choose to take a stand against the highly partisan rhetoric that dominates the political landscape these days! I'm against it! And I...

In the 1970’s Daniel Ortega was a Marxist/Leninist freedom fighter and revolutionary backed by Castro in Cuba and Russia. In 1984 he was democratically elected as president of Nicaragua. Today he is the worst kind of political dictator. Everyone who has spoken out...

Stupidity about the pros and cons (almost exclusively false cons) about vaccinations has been rampant on an adjacent forum. Largely I have ignored these scurrilous anti-vaxxers as too ridiculous to waste my time on; but let’s face it, that kind of false narrative is...