Obama and Clinton: Dancing Around the Mulberry Bush

Does America owe Barack Obama the presidency because he’s black? This was the question that seemed to speak from the television screen as I watched the heartrending story on CNN of the murder, forty years ago, of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, a man who spoke to all oppressed people everywhere.
Will electing a black president [...]

Sermons on Hate: Wright and Obama

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – Robert Collier
Who is this man running for president of our country? Even the thought of Obama getting elected is so appalling I cannot believe he [...]

Appalachian Rhapsody–God’s Comic Intervention

Out of the void of darkness came the Big Boom and another mountaintop in Appalachia tumbled down the mountainside, buried a graveyard, filled up a stream and killed a fish. The fish asked why but nobody answered. A small boy heard and looked up at the old man sitting on a cloud, coughing and waving [...]

Obama’s Wishing Well is Going Dry

The pundits seem to be missing the point about Barack Obama using his friend’s words, whether he had permission or not. The point is that his overwhelming acceptance by the people is in response to supposedly spontaneous messages from his heart. Messages that are uplifting yet give us very few facts to chew on. If [...]

Obama: Twas Brillig and the Slithy Toves

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal
I am not a great thinker. But I do love to think, and I often mull over in my mind the many thoughts that other people have written down for posterity. When I read good writing [...]

A Message From RFK: Fear Not the Path of Truth

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. – Robert F. Kennedy, June 8, 1964
A thought keeps running through my mind like a moving line across [...]

The Human Condition: Poop Has Always Been With Us

Woe am I, the haunted, beset by fates unkind; blessed with a royal demeanor and cursed with a common behind – the human complaint
Not long after my first husband and I were married we found we both liked to read in bed. One night he was reading a history about ancient Rome and I was [...]

Politics: Throwing the Bleeps to the Lions

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”  Julius [...]

The Myth in the Race for the Presidency

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”  –  Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532)
News Flash: In a little village in Kenya called Nyangoma-Kogelo, people gather around the radio listening to [...]

King, Kennedy and the American Revolution

All of us, from the wealthiest and most powerful of men, to the weakest and hungriest of children, share one precious possession; the name American. — Robert F. Kennedy
I’ve been thinking a lot about Bobby lately. In watching still another year end as I go further into my dotage, I’m reminded of other years from [...]