I did not vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. I wish our political system could produce real leaders, whatever their personal failings, as opposed to demagogues and political hacks. But unfortunately, we have presidents like Bill Clinton, George…

In light of what’s been going on around us over the last four years, and most particularly in recent weeks, I’ve been thinking about our most fundamental right – the right to say what we think. It is one of…

(Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937)   I have resisted saying anything about the events in Gaza since the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023. But I am horrified by what I’ve been seeing. Bombs dropped on civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools,…

I haven’t posted in a while (almost two months).  Sometimes life just gets away from you. Rather than a series of posts, I thought I’d comment on a few things in one post – forcing a relative economy of words,…