On the holy day, you are not supposed to work. It is devotional, as I understand it. We don’t have them much anymore in the West, but there is a growing movement to turn off the devices. Turn them all off. People are doing it all over. They are putting down the Blackberry, refusing to […]

On the holy day, you are not supposed to work. It is devotional, as I understand it. We don’t have them much anymore in the West, but there is a growing movement to turn off the devices. Turn them all off. People are doing it all over. They are putting down the Blackberry, refusing to […]

I got the word that the Republicans have a significant gender problem, not the same one the Democrats have, but significant just the same. The women seem to like Mitt, and the men seem to like Big John. It is simplistic and patronizing to put it this way, but I think it has some genetic […]

I got the word that the Republicans have a significant gender problem, not the same one the Democrats have, but significant just the same. The women seem to like Mitt, and the men seem to like Big John. It is simplistic and patronizing to put it this way, but I think it has some genetic […]

I am shaken this morning by the realization that the Senators apparently now really like one another. I am a little disappointed that the male and female Democratic frontrunners were so chummy at the debate last night, and even more shaken when I realize that the female frontrunner also knocked back a couple whiskeys with […]

I am shaken this morning by the realization that the Senators apparently now really like one another. I am a little disappointed that the male and female Democratic frontrunners were so chummy at the debate last night, and even more shaken when I realize that the female frontrunner also knocked back a couple whiskeys with […]

Bronze Troops at the Korean War Memorial, Washington, DC I think it must have started in the Vietnam Era, at least the modern version. It is appropriate to take a moment on it, since it is the anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the tactical disaster for the Viet Cong that became the instrument of strategic […]

Bronze Troops at the Korean War Memorial, Washington, DC I think it must have started in the Vietnam Era, at least the modern version. It is appropriate to take a moment on it, since it is the anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the tactical disaster for the Viet Cong that became the instrument of strategic […]

The McCain Monument, Hanoi There was a lot of talk when Bob Dole made his run against Bill Clinton to be President of these United States that, if successful, he would be the last WW II veteran to serve in the Oval Office. For a half century, no one could aspire to that office without […]

The McCain Monument, Hanoi There was a lot of talk when Bob Dole made his run against Bill Clinton to be President of these United States that, if successful, he would be the last WW II veteran to serve in the Oval Office. For a half century, no one could aspire to that office without […]