Archive for December, 2020
Merry Christmas
Thursday, December 24th, 2020We live in a world of artificial lights. Light is all around us. It can even be with us twenty four hours if we want it. Natural light, however, brings so much joy. Who among us is not mesmerized by the glow of a candle, a fire or a star? Darkness is not simply the […]
State of Denial
Thursday, December 17th, 2020I thought that we lived in the state of Texas. Looking at Republican politicians, we must live in the state of denial. Joe Biden won 306 Electoral College votes and 81,283,495 individual votes. Joe Biden easily won the Presidency. There is no doubt. Even Republicans in the states Biden won, say Biden won. No lawsuit […]
The Pretender
Thursday, December 10th, 2020America has never had a pretender before. Pretenders were regular features of European monarchies. In monarchies the government, called the Crown, was the personal property of the king. It passed from father to son or, rarely, to his daughter. In America, we have a Republic. The term “republic†derives from the Latin phrase “res publica.†[…]
Best Days Ahead of Us
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020I always get a chuckle when people talk about the “good ol’ days.†When people image the past, they usually imagine themselves in a utopian cottage or a royal palace. For the vast majority of people in past, their life was nasty, brutish, and short. Before the late 1900s, humans lacked basic knowledge of microbiology […]