I know I should be able to distance myself from the avalanche of transparent lies that slams into me daily. The reason I can’t is that it plays on my worst paranoia, that everyone on the planet has been body snatched. This frustration-and-horror-induced crankiness is getting worse with age. My brother Tim and I are…
Radical Muslim extremism isn’t what threatens our lives
December 7, 2015
I just read a very depressing article about Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, the two Muslim terrorists who murdered fourteen at a San Bernardino County Public Health Department Christmas party on December 2, 2015. We’ve become a nation of blathering mush-heads afraid to “judge.” That’s why we use the utterly inappropriate term…
Immoral mutants who think words are as bad as murder
December 6, 2015
How immoral has American political culture become? Well, it equates words with mass murder. Actually, our political culture sees words as worse than mass murder. Look no further than this incredible op-ed. San Bernardino bloodbath born of bigots They were two hate-filled, bigoted municipal employees interacting in one department. Now 13 innocent people are dead…
I’ll never understand the monsters who walk among us
December 3, 2015
As a child, I knew I’d never be able to have children. It was an opportunity that was simply not present for me. Still, I always wanted children. Though I don’t feel envy, I’m sometimes saddened when I see happy parents with children they love. So I can’t understand why Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen…
Political agendas are far more important than murder victims
December 2, 2015
Today terrorists shot up the Inland Regional Center (IRC) in San Bernadino, California. At least fourteen people were killed and another seventeen wounded. Although the IRC serves people with developmental disabilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the target was a Christmas party in a room rented by employees of the San Bernadino County Public…