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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We lost an old friend and new blog contributor with the death of Daniel Sugarman PhD after a short illness, last week.Dan was an outstanding human being,therapist and teacher.He was…

An early cast member of the Star Trek team referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a blackface clown.This indictment was,among other things,probably meant to wound Thomas'feelings.J.L. has told…