Before there was George Carlin or Lewis Black, there was Mort Sahl. In August 1960, Sahl appeared on the cover of Time Magazine and was lauded as the person who could, through social satire, help voters understand the choices in the upcoming presidential election. In what seems unimaginable today, Sahl befriended several presidents despite his sometimes critical … Read more
Speculation seems to be the order of the day. So I thought I’d join in. The question? Which of the following is most interesting and about which we are least informed? The contents of the Mueller Report? Or who is the front runner for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president? Without any real data–the actual … Read more
The screen shot, below, from the Associated Press was captured at 7:16 am this morning. It is the third day in a row the lead has been about a disgruntled actor, who is accused of staging a fake hate crime, to enhance his public persona. Before January 29, 2019, I would venture an overwhelming majority … Read more
There has not been an abdication of national leadership like this since British King Edward VIII announced on December 10, 1936, he would relinquish the Crown to marry Wallace Simpson. Yesterday, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, when it comes to the Article 1, Section 9 enumerated powers of Congress to appropriate and draw money from … Read more
In September, 1897, an eight year-old girl named Virginia O’Hanlon, at her father’s urging, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun asking whether Santa Claus was real. In what became the most reprinted editorial of all time, Francis Pharcellus Church, a member of the Sun’s editorial staff, penned the response. Without … Read more