Yearly Archives: 2015

     (Before starting this week’s offering, a few random thoughts. This column is Volume 20, Number 52 for the year, which means, of course, that next week’s will be Volume 12, Number 1, which begins a brand new year. Where did this year go? It has been said that life […]

     Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, it was a very good year. As if 2015 weren’t bad enough for the Department of Homeland Security (e.g., in June, internal DHS tests revealed that its […]

Volume 20, Number 50, December 6, 2015      Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, truth in advertising? Last month, lawyer Michael Petersen of Appleton, Wisconsin, was ordered by county judge Philip Kirk (in a […]

Volume 20, Number 50      Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, Art Basel, the annual weeklong festival for “One-Percenters” in Miami Beach, happened last week (I wasn’t invited), and among the many excesses is […]

Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. A Waffle House employee in Mississippi was shot dead after she asked a customer to stop smoking in the restaurant, police said. Johnny Max Mount, 45, was allegedly smoking […]

   Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. First, a valuable quote from Confucius!  “Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” I have done quite well in following those words. My relentless, inexorable, demanding slave-driving (can I say that?), whip-cracking webmaster of the […]

    Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. First, were Liquid Stupid Pills involved? A sign of the Times – Part I. I am thinking this man is lucky to be alive – very lucky, indeed! Fort Bragg, North Carolina, declared an emergency back on Oct. 30th […]

     Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. First, what’s a court to do? A 2015 decision of the Georgia Supreme Court has created a dilemma for drunk driver enforcement. In Georgia (and other states), blood alcohol tests are “voluntary” (to bypass the issue of whether drivers […]

(A note from me: this is my first column online. Nothing has really changed yet as this was going to be the one to go into the paper back in September when I started to see signs that my relationship with The Record Enterprise was over. This online thing may […]