I've made a decision.  I've been testing it out for the past two weeks.  I know the switch is coming.  I've seen the ads, listened to my friends.  

My friends, who have their favorite television programs, have looked at me strangely when I say, no, I haven't gotten t… Read full post »

Second Chances

 Everyone comes to the United States for a second chance.  

The problem is there are no second chances left in the United States, especially if you already live here.

Alex de Tocqueville once said that America will only be great when it is good, when America ceases… Read full post »

The smallest things can signal an evolution.  The movement of certain types of grasses or flowers into an area where they have not been seen to grow before, the loss, enhancement or the discovery of a new species of animal life.

For me an evolutionary signal occured… Read full post »

Today, two days after the election stocks on Wall street fell approximately 900 points.

Should we panic?

Should we bewail the announcements of job layoffs?

Should we believe this is all that America is about?

No, no and no.

I haven't much sympathy for the corporations of… Read full post »

I became involved as an eavesdropper in a serendipitous conversation yesterday that helped, for me, shed light on this crisis.

I listened as a younger man told his story about a bicycle he hand found in a warehouse he worked at unloading containers coming in from overseas. The… Read full post »

I want to invoke a Jubilee.  Now this isn't about a wedding anniversary, this is something different.  It's what AIG, Bear Stearns and others like them have received.  Now I and I know others like me, want a Jubilee for themselves. 

What is a Jubilee you say?  Well, if… Read full post »