Dr. ESP

NOTE:  My absence the past couple of weeks is, as is often the case, due to a convergence of two or more situations.  First, today I am posting entry #800 and wanted to make sure the content matched the milestone.  Second, I am finally recovering from a bout with the flu which has made it … Read more

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ~George Santayana It was August 1999.  Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan hosted the National Governors Association annual meeting in St. Louis. I was there.  I ran into PBS NewsHour political commentator Mark Shields on an elevator.  He asked if I knew why the Republican … Read more

Yesterday, the world bore witness to the first public emasculation since August 5, 1305 when Scottish independence leader William Wallace was executed for treason. However, there was one major difference between Wallace and this most recent victim House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.  Wallace’s punishment was administered following a tribunal in Westminster Hall.  McCarthy’s was self-imposed as … Read more

For decades we heard the cry, “NOT IN MY BACKYARD!”  You did not need to finish the article or watch the rest of the news broadcast to know what it meant or what it referred to.  Communities protesting Section 8 housing in middle class neighborhoods.  City residents, although decrying a rise in crime, blocked construction … Read more