Mixed Meters

Donald Trump has been President of the United States for over four months. I am sick of it. Please note that I just called him Donald Tru...

For years my interest in The New Yorker magazine was limited to the cartoons.  Good cartoons.  I would read the magazine from back to front...

Democrats are my second least-favorite political party. Here's an email I received today - from the DCCC .   It makes me angry.  (Shou...

There's been a flood of thoughtful editorial writing analyzing recent political changes in our democracy-based republic.  There was alre...

You may have heard: a new U.S. president is being inaugurated.  You know who I'm talking about. Many confused people and a lot of c...

I have a hard time throwing things away. Today I've been spending time trying to sort through piles of papers in my office in hopes of...

This New Yorker cartoon by Paul Noth  made me guffaw even before I read the caption.  I share it with apologies to any relevant copyright le...

Humans need holidays. Otherwise our lives would get just too bleak. And what could be more bleak than the winter solstice in the northern...