Title is taken from remarks by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman during the siege of Atlanta during the American Civil War. Here at THE HOME, we have a Wall of Honor, with photos of men and women veterans. Most of us are, at least, in our seventies. We come from times when we needed large …
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Trial of the Centuries
Trial of the Centuries Orenthal James Simpson recently passed. His trial, for the murder of his former wife and a friend of hers, consumed much of the years 1994-1995. He was aquitted of the killings after hiring (assembling?) a “dream team” of some of the most famous defense attorneys of that time. Fortunately (in my …
The Fair Sex
Is this the beginning of the end for my persona – the White man? I don’t think there is any doubt. Some other foods for thought: as a former colleague at Bishop O’Connell High School (a Cuban immigrant) observed a few decades ago, the USA will be a majority Spanish-speaking nation by mid century, if …
Inconvenient Truth Revisited
At the beginning of this century, former VP Al Gore began to blow the whistle on what was then called “global warming”. By that time, climate scientists had begun to notice that average temperatures on Planet Earth had begun to rise. Although this is hardly an unprecedented phenomenon (the planet has warmed and cooled through …
More Random Thoughts
Did you know smoking pot can make you sick to your stomach? I didn’t know, either, until I read a piece in The Washington Post the other day, by Leona Wen, who made her bones as Baltimore City Health Commissioner. Dr Wen has written a number of articles in media since the start of the …
You Gotta Be Kidding
I have written posts on both of the (probable) major party candidates for 2024. I wrote one entitled, “The Worst Ever” a few weeks before the 2020 election, and one (Bookends) a few months after Joe Biden took office. Since that time, Biden’s predecessor has been indicted in several jurisdictions for various crimes and misdemeanors, …
Computers – A Senior’s Journey
Being In my mid-80’s, I was born in the age of the abacus. Processors (UNIVAC comes to mind) needed whole rooms, special ventilation, etc., all the while having considerably less computing power than today’s cellphones, or, for that matter, with most calculators. My first brush with the big ones was in a course in grad …
Ads
We are bombarded with them as long as we watch TV, listen to radio or otherwise participate in American life. Even public radio and TV have begun allowing them, albeit in abbreviated form. Though ad copywriters have jazzed them up to reach the younger generations (who spend most of the money, after all) there are …
Mail, News and T.V.
Prior to my retirement from DEA, the powers that be sent me to a retirement seminar. We learned many useful things, but the one which sticks to this day – do not watch the news. It’s too conducive to depression. The U.S mail is also a major contributor. On any given day, I receive numerous …
Merry Minuet
They’re Rioting in Africa, They’re Starving in Spain There’s Hurricanes in Florida, And Texas needs rain The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don’t like anybody very much…….. You get the drift. In a …
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