I am writing this a few days after the D.C. Navy Yard shooting took place.  I am not at all certain that the now dead shooter’s examination by the media is true.  They got a lot of it totally wrong.  Was he was a nut case?  Maybe, and maybe not.  We must remember that […]

  Twenty One years ago, (1992), I wrote a book titled, “I Hold These Truths.”  It has 90 chapters, and is basically my opinion on 90 different subjects.  Long out of print, and I didn’t save it on my computer, as I did another one, “Consequences,” which I wrote in 1998.  Occasionally, I thumb through […]

  Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, from all of the accounts I have read, was a revered man, and in his lifetime, united all the Arabic tribes into one nation.  He was born in 570 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  At age 25, he married a widow 25 years older than himself, who bore his children, and was […]

  Where have all the jobs gone?  There are a couple of answers, but let’s tae the most obvious one first.  Everything, no matter which field of work, has lost jobs over the last few decades. with no exceptions.   When I was young, (many decades ago!),  the only self service elevators were in small apartment […]