Three Down…

Nothing emboldens more than success.  The National Enquirer gets it right about John Edwards and thinks it is a real newspaper.   Psychic and astrologer Jeanne Dixon predicted in 1956 that the next president would be a Democrat and would die in office at the hands of an assassin.  She later prophesized the world would end in … Read more

Hmm!

Truth, if rejected, is found to be false.  Facts, if rejected, are said to be incorrect…Truth is determined by the inquirer’s intention; facts by the inquirer’s outcome. No truth has been changed by applying further knowledge.  Many a fact, however, has been discarded when proven incorrect. Jon Huer/Tenure for Socrates Synchronicity is alive and well … Read more

It’s All Greek to Me

You knew it would happen eventually.  Somebody was bound to throw a bucket of water on the bonfire of enthusiasm generated by Kamala Harris’ emergence as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.  This time it was a YouGov poll, which according to The Hill, found: While the respondents said that both Trump and Harris are … Read more

An Unwitting Asset

In 2006, comedian Robert Wuhl co-wrote and starred in a two-part HBO special “Assume the Position.”  Wuhl plays a professor in a history class at New York University (the students are actually film majors).  At the outset, he prepares his students (and the HBO audience) for what is to come with the following: Tolstoy said, … Read more

The Next Closest Thing

During his interview with George Stephanopoulos, President Biden suggested that the only call for him to step down he might heed would have to come from “God Almighty.”  It’s said the Lord works in mysterious ways.  If that’s the case, imagine the following scene between Biden and actors James Earl Jones and  Kevin Costner, reprising … Read more