Wait, It Wasn’t the Middle Finger?
In an op ed piece in the Providence Journal, a woman lobbied for the state legislature to pass a law making it illegal to use one's fingers to pretend to point a gun at someone. It seems she "inadvertently" cut
Cause and Effect
The great Eric Hoffer, the "longshoreman/philosopher," said once, Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. I find that people often grasp at any straw to prove the gravity and seriousness of their
From the Surface to the Depths
The photo of the year might be the $175 million dollar yacht picking up the survivors (and dead) of the rickety migrant boat that overturned close to Greek shores, which the Greek coast guard was not very aggressive in trying
The Fifty-Cent Outrage
I read on social media that someone was enraged because a restaurant had assessed a fifty-cent charge on the bill for an order of extra cheese to sprinkle on the food. The total bill was $124. It strikes me that to
The Right Lane
Two days I week I take Royce to puppy school. The quickest way to get there is by avoiding the back roads and taking the interstate (I95) for about five miles. Since I take him (and Coco) in the pickup
Why Does A Japan Visit Have Precedence Over A Possible Default?
Just a consultant's observation, without any political leanings: If the debt crisis and default potential are so severe, what is President Biden doing in Japan, a trip that could be rescheduled, instead of meeting with key people to resolve an
The Real “Climate Change” Isn’t What You Think
Yesterday my wife and I hopped on the commuter train to Boston to do some serious shopping, since there are no really high-end clothing stores (with wide variety) in Rhode Island. It was an educational day. We rode the commuter train,
How Do You Represent People If You Won’t Speak to Them?
I don't think it's President Biden's age so much as whether people think he's able to do the job, and his "handlers" certainly seem to have a philosophy of shielding him from interviews and questioning, as even the New York Times
That’s Debatable
When I was in high school you could take "rhetoric" as a class, and join the debate team. One of the features of debate, where one side won and the other lost—there were no "participation trophies"—was that you could be
You’re Guilty Until I Tell You You’re Not
Have you considered that we're constantly eroding a fundamental aspect of freedom, namely, that we're innocent until proved guilty? I'll admit that we haven't been totally in compliance with that tenet, often allowing bias and racism of all kinds to