Meditations

It’s only been one day since the man who caused the needless deaths of over 100,000 Americans, and I’m sick of hearing the lying refrain: “We all want the president…

I have a selfish reason for writing this column. The thought of another four years of the orange face with dead noises emanating from it fills me with existential dread.…

“The sole remaining superpower, the indispensible nation, and the leader of the free world,” which had already grown smaller than little England under Brexit, has suddenly become, at the death…

A breeze flowed into the interior of California from the Pacific this morning, brightening the day and even allowing a bit of blue sky for only the second time in…

It’s often been said that what begins in California spreads to the rest of the country, and the world. God help us if that’s still the case, because it feels…

Of late I often begin a political conversation with liberal friends and acquaintances by asking, “Have you heard the phrase, ‘Own the Libs?” Invariably they haven’t, even though Donald Trump…

The smartest animal on the planet other than humans is the Orca, otherwise known as Killer Whales. They aren’t whales at all, and the ‘killer’ adjective is species projection. Orcas…

The half moon is blood red tonight. Wildfires have consumed a million and a half acres in California. Under the smoky skies, ominousness pervades the atmosphere day and night. No…