I have been reluctant to write anything about the racist slaughter in Buffalo New York, where ten people, most of them black Americans, were murdered by a young white racist; or last week’s massacre of 19 children and two teachers…

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has been a staple of late-night television comedy since 1975. Structured around an ensemble cast, and featuring weekly hosts and musical guests, it has become a presence in most of our lives for decades. That ensemble…

With all that is threatening us, whether war; climate change; the economy; or the next round of Roe v. Wade, one needs a reminder that the future of humanity is not all hopeless – even if the road ahead is…

I had gotten a comment on my earlier post, and as it questioned opinion rather than an issue of fact, I thought it appropriate to respond in much more depth to a wider audience. It goes a good deal deeper…

Ukraine, a small Jeffersonian democracy that is led by a president who is a combination of Joan of Arc and Winston Churchill, is fighting an unprovoked invasion by Russia, its large cruel neighbor. Russia is ruled by an evil dictator…

As the world’s peoples watch the conflict in Ukraine with fear and uncertainty, I was thinking of the lost opportunities that could have prevented this situation. Perhaps the most opportune would have been had George H. W. Bush in 1989…

Looking back over the last year, it’s clear that any hope that the 1/6/21 riot at the US Capitol would have resulted in positive change was never going to be realized. Both political parties who could have, and should have,…

This is a video that’s nominally about fly fishing and traumatic brain injury. But it’s so much more. It’s about hope. And as 2022 begins with all the same perils and terror that we saw in 2021, maybe a message…

Merry Christmas Buon Natale Feliz Navidad And for our friends across the globe, Счастливого Рождества Shèngdàn jié kuàilè کریسمس مبارک With all the tensions in the world,  we must hope all nations can find a way to live in peace…

In my last post, I wrote of the growth issues facing Greater Yellowstone and, specifically, Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley. These can always be topics fraught with a sense of self-interest, and mixed with elements of envy and resentment. Seeing…