It is long overdue but I must apologize to someone who I last saw some sixty five years ago. Linda was a diminutive girl that I taunted and bullied because she was “different” and not conventionally attractive. My hurtful inexcusable actions were reprehensible in the extreme and still shame me.

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Must be honest here I don’t remember the movie “Idiocracy” but I do have the weird feeling that somehow I am in some bizarre gag reel of that film. Oh yes, on top of that it isn’t funny!

Listening to “Nuggets” and hearing those songs and then trying to place the where’s and when’s of cruising the streets of Roseland in the summer of 1965 before my enlistment. That last Mendel dance with TW4 (much later they would change their name to Styx) who played a fair number of these tunes.

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

As one may easily discern I am an older citizen not the sharpest guy on the block but neither am I a fool, though there have been many foolish moments in my life. What is difficult, no impossible, to understand is seventy three million people, give or take four or five million, voting for 47.

Today is my first day here after leaving FB some nine months ago. Not entirely certain that this will be a comfortable fit but here goes. Being uncertain of any leadership that will stand in an effective opposition to the current administration. The question is what can I do as an individual.