Category Archives: politics

The One The Only Evel Knievel – 2015

America has not elected a bald president since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. Every candidate with a hair issue has been rejected by the voters, although the outcome in the electoral college proved to be a landslide for the GOP, Hubert Humphrey missed defeating Richard Nixon in the 1968 popular vote thanks to George Wallace diverting […]

January 6, 2025 – Two Years Later

On January 6, 2021 Donald Trump appeared in the Great Lawn before a rally of loyal supporters at the Ellipse to protest the results of the 2000 Presidential Election. Inside the Capitol Building Congress was recording the electoral votes to approve the victory for Joseph Biden. According to Wikipedia Donald Trump in his usual suit, […]

Fifty-Nine Years Later

Today no one in New York had mentioned JFK’s bad day in Dallas. Neither the BBC, New York Times, nor Al-Jazeera wrote a single line about the November 22, 1963 tragedy, proving the old adage that as you get old you forget and as you get older you are forgotten. Fifty-nine years might be a […]

Cold Irish Revenge

I can remember what I was wearing on November 22, 1963. A white shirt, sky blue tie, and dark navy trousers were the boy’s uniform at Our Lady of the Foothills south of the Neponset River. It was a beautiful autumn day. Then Mother Mary Superior spoke over the intercom and tearfully announced, “President Kennedy […]

The Criminal Paradise