Having just watched the HBO series based on Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America, I wondered how Walter Winchell might have covered the coronavirus pandemic. Something like this? Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the cruise ships still at sea. Let’s go to … Read more
NOTE: The following is a reprint of a “Letter to the Editor” sent to our local newspaper. Some of the content is copied from the February 28 post titled, “CULTure in America.” In what can only be called a textbook example of shooting the messenger, News-Leader columnist Howard Pines joined fellow columnist Steve Nicklas in … Read more
Even a social scientist who constantly warns others about the difference between correlation and causation can jump the shark when the evidence seems overwhelming. For me, that line blurred when comparing the inverse relationship between Donald Trump’s approval ratings to the length of his daily 5:00 p.m. “press beefings.” In what can only be … Read more
I can only imagine what aliens, having landed on earth on February 1, would think of America and how it picks its leaders. First, they learned candidates have spent a year crisscrossing two political units which account for one percent of the total delegates who will make the eventual choice at a gathering later … Read more
The following is a parody of a 1959 episode (Season 03/Episode 24) of The Twilight Zone titled, “To Serve Man.”* ROD SERLING You’re traveling through another dimension–a dimension not only where many chose not to see or hear, a dimension of the mindless, a journey into a dysfunctional land whose boundaries are shattered by the warped … Read more