Hitler

On the side of the house grows a sprawling vine, spilling over the fence from the neighbor’s unkempt yard. It has many delicate flowers of deep purple. They apparently need…

Hindsight, the cliché goes, is 20/20. In truth, hindsight is only as clear as one’s perception of the present.

World News – An allegedly 128-year-old man in Salta, Argentina has announced he is in fact former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and has spent the last 70 years in hiding. While…

My youngest sister called today while driving home to Saginaw from Kalamazoo, where her daughter is soon to graduate from college. We barely mentioned the latest eruption of evil in…

Finally, a mainstream columnist has written the truth about the invasion of Iraq. Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman’s recent piece, “Errors and Lies,” gives an honest and accurate portrayal of…

Auschwitz, a name synonymous with evil, was liberated 70 years ago, on January 27, 1945. It’s fitting to reflect not only on the industrialized slaughter of 11 million people under…

It’s just before the mid-term elections in America, and the mood is moribund. Right-wing Republicans, with help from weak-kneed Democrats, have successfully made it a referendum on President Obama. America…

Some years ago, a friend, who sometimes unintentionally (I think) sets me up in uncomfortable situations, introduced me to an Irish lass in the only Irish bar in town. She…