Happy Halloween!

Once upon a time in a faraway land, I wrote the following verse for my daughters, but I never showed it to them or to anyone else.
Today, I dedicate these few lines to my daughters and to all who remember their own Halloweens. 
Once upon a simple time,When corn shocks marched in frosty [...]

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A John is a John is a John

Thinking about the issue of prostitution in San Francisco, I was reminded of an incident related to several of us a few years ago by an apparatchik acquaintance.
He had returned after a visit to the city and claimed he’d been arrested by plainclothes officers for soliciting prostitution. In other words, my drinking and golfing buddy [...]

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The World’s Most Lucrative Profession

Prostitution is said to be the world’s oldest profession. I hold to the belief that designing and selling fig leaves probably pre-dates it.
But that’s neither here nor there. San Francisco’s Proposition K, which would prohibit SF’s city officials from arresting and prosecuting prostitutes and pimps, brought to mind a thought that’s been percolating in my [...]

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A Test to Determine Your Degree of Americanism

Are you a real American? Here’s a checklist of Americanism. If you fit any of these profiles, you are not a real American.

You live in Northern Virginia.
You’re a Democratic congressman or women.
You’re a liberal.
You watch the Chris Matthews Hardball show.
You read the New York Times.
You’re [...]

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Alice in Wonderland

Here we are fourteen days away from E-Day and I have this unexplainable feeling of detachment from reality. Have I reached a point of thinking “What will be will be?” Maybe.
Or has the extended campaign season just worn me out? That’s possible. But more than likely, it’s the sudden appearance of the word [...]

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To be or not to be–American

I’ve always been amazed and sometimes confused about Republican success in branding others as unpatriotic, un-American, and traitorous.
The attack has recently been successfully leveled against Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and Max Cleland. And now, the Republicans are pouring it on to an unprecedented extent against Barack Obama.
In the cases of Kerry and Cleland, the attacks [...]

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TGIF Tidbits

Credit Crunch Anyone?
A credit card company that I’ve been with for eons sent me a notice yesterday reducing my credit limit. The reason: my spending history. I haven’t been buying enough.
Somehow, the logic escapes me. The company wants me to buy more, on their credit card, of course, so its solution is to reduce my [...]

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