An Extra Helping of Loaves and Fishes Please

It’s showtime on the fruited plain.

Well, the impeachment was an exciting overture. Next, the curtain will go up on the biggest show on earth. I am talking about the campaign for the November election, of course. This will be a peculiar show. The performers will ignore two-thirds of the audience....
An Extra Helping of Loaves and Fishes Please

Do you swear to…?

The bloodbath-cum-circus in Washington these days? It awakens memories. Of how a notorious American ambassador handled a similar brouhaha – the Clinton impeachment. He deployed a simple device. With it, he brought a certain order to the mayhem of the thinking of his...
An Extra Helping of Loaves and Fishes Please

What has happened to us?

How did we get to this stage as a country? Millions of Americans can no longer discuss things. Things like elections. And climate change, the Mueller Report. And impeachment and foreign policies. Too many of us dare not speak of such. Not among friends and family. And...