Uncategorized Symbolic Interaction &The U.S.Open 13 Sep 2015 Bill Dwyer's article"Blake,Serena and Race Issue" in the sports section of the August 11th L.A Times, drew a tight circle around Serena's quest for the calendar year grand slam and…
Uncategorized A Foolish Consistency… 11 Sep 201511 Sep 2015 Emerson's dictum to the effect that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen,philosophers and diviners."may be critical to the selection of an appropriate presidential…
Uncategorized Sixteen Men and One Woman… 5 Sep 2015 The dead man whose chest the republican candidates are sitting on has been identified.It is our old friend Dick Cheney ,a.k.a.Darth Vader.Dearth might be more appropriate for lack of perspective,humility,and…
Uncategorized THE INTOLERABILITY OF INVISIBLE MAN STATUS: A CNN Revisit To Two Of Our Pariahs 4 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 This past weekend CNN played reruns of previous broadcasts featuring two of this blogs"pariahs".Jim Jones and Charles Manson, charismatic individuals of above average intelligence each with a vision of the…
Uncategorized The Retrospectoscope Looks At A Recent Symbolic Interaction 3 Sep 20153 Sep 2015 Calhoun college is one of 12 Yale residential colleges modeled on the English 800+ year old Oxford/Cambridge template.The Yale system was installed only some 70 years ago with a 1932…
Uncategorized THE GUN AS A FINAL SOLUTION 26 Aug 201526 Aug 2015 This a.m the news of a new shooting hit the media. This time in a town near Roanoke Va. a young telejournalist, her photographer and a member of the local…
Uncategorized Trump or No-Trump : What’s the Issue? Where’s the risk? 20 Aug 2015 Herb Wolfson(pitcherinthe wry.blogspot.com)reminds us that Saudi Arabia is the source of the Islamic sect that spawned Isis.(Washaabi) as well as the source of Bin Laden and most of the hijackers…
Uncategorized Retrospectoscope<Where We Have Been and Whither Now.> 14 Aug 201514 Aug 2015 The Octogenarians began with an implicit assertion that ideas and issues that are disremembered and only foggily available may be so because of a wish among an elite to make…
Uncategorized Forcing To Game In A No Trump Hand. 30 Jul 2015 JLL considers Donald Trump to be a 21st century Tom Thumb.I'm not sure why.He certainly violates JLL's principle of not hurting with words.There is something pre-adolescent in the nature of…
Uncategorized Dear Dignity:May I Have This Dance? (Or is it too dangerous?) 24 Jul 2015 The Ben Peterson article re dignity("The Dangerous Side of Dignity") appearing in "The Intercollegiate Review" invokes visions of heaven and hell in mankind's struggle to claim dignity.It asserts that it…
The Octogenarians 