The way society works is that a lot of folks have to live poorly so that a few may live lives of grand luxury. For example there are the lush lives of Putin and his supporting oligarchs feasting off the average poor Russian. For you see, friends, we humans are…

Striped down to the bone in the crudest of terms, the human egocentric, survival mechanism sees what people like them and their kind are able to acquire as being good and just and what others unlike them and their kind acquire as being somehow bad and unfair — they must…

The two opposed military commanders, Maj.Gen.George G. Meade for the North and General Robert E. Lee for the South, whose army’s clashed at the Battle of Gettysburg, both held strategic objectives that would indirectly hinder their troops operations on the first of three days of fighting at the small but…

Human impulses at the primitive level are always local — me, my family, my race, my religion and my region, sort of a super states rights mentality. National and international issues are looked on as somehow subversive to me first concerns. Hitler’s NAZI strength came out of Bavaria not Berlin…

Every time I hear one of my White friends (I’m White by the way) hint that folks of color are mostly lazy welfare queens living off some government program because they don’t want to work, it it makes my blood boil. …

I love Medium. It is a wonderful place where thoughtful and not so thoughtful citizen writers can express their opinions right alongside the greats of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post. But there should be limits when it comes to free speech. With the systematic destruction…

Putin’s Russian Bear is a trapped creature wrapped in a nuclear suicide vest. If the bear panics all humanity dies. I know it’s painful to watch the death and misery of the valiant Ukrainian people at the hands of Putin’s crazed antics, but, alas, Ukraine’s temporary suffering is the cost…

There is an unwritten law of the universe that says at some point in time creation must always be offset by destruction, stars are born and stars die — balance! This law is inescapable for all objects and creatures of the universe and most assuredly planet earth and its long…

Psychology experts that have followed the career of Vladimir Putin from KGB agent to essentially president for life of Russia seem to believe that his health — particularly the mental part of his health — has noticeably declined into a dangerous state of paranoia and fantasy land thinking. He seems…