There is no substitute for person al, hands-on, sustained contact with the poor. Do not use the state as a proxy.  Do it yourself. Build...

Trump’s Budget Would Partly Replace Food Stamp Benefits With Canned Goods I respond to the first paragraph only. Nothing else. The first...

Are thorns happy? Friday, December 1, Bounce showed Steven Seagal’s Above the Law . He always plays opposite some eye candy, a term I...

(Originally published 09/18/2012 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reposted 10/24/2013 .) Romney: Obama voters ‘believe they are victims’...

Bookmarks: Homeless celebrities • Discovering Nina Simone • 10,000 Boomers retire every day • Woman found beaten to death; daughter...

This is the third of three posts about entitlement: 04/19 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” Today...

This is the second of three posts about entitlement: 04/19 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” Today – “How I became homeless”...

Bookmarks: Who pays for Medicare?  •  Loonies don’t need guns  • Parental involvement in education • Struggles of the long-term...

This is the first of three posts about entitlement: Today – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” ...

I normally only publish on Mondays (comments on the news), Wednesdays (recycling old posts) and Saturdays (substantial new pieces).  A...

I came to belief in astrology by a very strange route. MY “MONTHLY” Sometime between 1985 and 1995, I became aware that, for years,...

(Originally published 08/14/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .) Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a...

(Originally published 09/18/2012 at Trojan Horse Productions. ) Romney: Obama voters ‘believe they are victims’ First, let me say I...