OH, TO BE A DEADBEAT
December 28, 2024 Owning a Bentley has always been on my bucket list. I can imagine myself tooling down the road toward the golf course in a Bentley. The Tuscan model Continental GT Mulliner in…
SOME PEOPLE ARE ABOVE THE LAW
Sent to the Washington Post – 12-2-24 How many times have we heard Joe Biden say, “No one is above the law.” Well, that was a lie. It shouldn’t be a surprise Biden pardoned his…
ALAN’S LETTER TO THE EDITOR
LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON POST 12-2-24 SOME PEOPLE ARE ABOVE THE LAW How many times have we heard Joe Biden say, “No one is above the law.” Well, that was a lie. It shouldn’t be…
ODE TO AN OLIVE
Greetings from cold and rainy Kirkwall, Scotland, at the northern tip of Great Britain. The wife and I are on a cruise for our wedding anniversary. Forty-four years after pleading her to marry me, here…
A CHRISTMAS STORY, A NUTCRACKER, A MOUSE, AND A BALLET
This past Sunday my wife and I attended what might have been my 15th trip to the Nutcracker. At this matinee, the stars of the show, at least to this grandpa, were two of our…
PUT DOWN THAT DAMN PHONE
What is the cellphone doing to society in general? Did you know that the iPhone that you are reading this message from has over 100,000 times the processing power of the computer used to put…
BALL FANS SHOULD STOP THE INSANITY
How long will it be until we see the first billion-dollar player. Bleacher Report listed twelve major league baseball players who should get contracts of a hundred million dollars or more during the off-season. Sadly,…
MEANWHILE, BACK IN CHEBANSE
My cousin Chris and I had just come off a serious pop bottle run and were now lounging on the bottom shelf of the magazine rack in Harry’s Chebanse Variety Store. The year was 1969…
UNDERSTANDING BIDEN VOTERS
Last Thursday, September 7th, CNN ran an article stating, “Biden’s defenders brush off concerns over his age and approval rating as polls show warning signs.” While it’s difficult to trust CNN reporting, and their ratings…
