Discrimination is Us!

by | Oct 26, 2017 | Newspaper Columns

Hallelujah!  We are all getting screwed. That’s my take from a recent NPR poll. It found that most of us feel we are victims of discrimination. Hurrah!  Equity at last. We are all being treated equally. Treated shabbily perhaps. But equally shabbily. The poll found...

A study in over-reacting

by | Dec 9, 2016 | Newspaper Columns

If there’s one thing we are good at in this country it is over-acting. Or over-dramatizing. Or over-reacting. Shakespeare reckoned all the world’s a stage. In this corner of the world it’s a soap opera. Just look at the reactions to this election. Now in some...