2023 Articles

The Court of the Red Czar (Tsar)

Or, Mar-a-lago East August 29, 2023 New publisher, Marc Applebaum (of globalcentralbranding.com) suggested that I hadn\’t  written about Trump in quite some time.  I told him that I didn\’t want to write about Trump ever again!  Upon further reflection, however, I realized that the Orange Man has occupied my consciousness at-some-point every day (usually with […]

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To Cure or Not to Cure

August 18, 2023 Back in 1977 I tore the medial meniscus in my left knee during an intra-mural soccer match.  The college\’s medical insurance for its athletes (I was a swimmer) was dedicated to Borgess hospital where I brought my wounded knee — when the reduced swelling finally allowed for an examination. Borgess orthopedics shot

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Greed

July 30, 2023 Greed is probably the worst of The Seven Deadly Sins: it is certainly the sin that has impacted the rise and fall of The Divided States of America moreso than the other six. The sins of pride, sloth, envy, greed, gluttony, lust and anger are considered \”deadly\” because once you\’ve committed (or

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The First Abortion

July 14, 2023 I\’m covering plenty of old ground in this incarnation of The Doctor\’s Inn — but Holly Todd\’s recent, illustrated take on the topic of abortion (in my no longer beloved L.A. Times [I cancelled my subscription — a story for another day]) got me exploring a new line of thinking.  Holly poses

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Can Shakespeare be Far Behind?

July 4, 2023 It\’s only a matter of time before some American student and his/her parent(s) are sufficiently offended by the bawdiness of ol\’ Willy — that Shakespeare is subsequently pulled from the English curriculum of that particular school district. I wonder how it hasn\’t happened yet?  Or, if it has already occurred, why I

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Beware the Uni-Mind

June 19, 2023 A definition of The Uni-Mind is: the power to mentally connect with anything in totality: a mental expression of unity and cosmic telepathy and the ultimate stage of enlightenment. This definition immediately conjurs up any zombie movie with the zombies moving in concert — not to forget The Invasion of the Body

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Trifecta

May 29, 2023 A Trifecta is a situation in which you achieve 3 things.  If we were to gauge the anti-social features of the gentleman named below — we would be achieving 3 things… ****er Carlson (a BA from Trinity College; 1991) Some time back I devoted an entire essay to the titan of visual

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Another Hallelujah

April 8, 2023 I almost got this out on April Fool\’s Day — which might have been more fitting — because who would have thunk that The Orange Man would finally see a reckoning (or at least an attempt at a reckoning)?  But here we are — with some partial accountability…some partial karma… The Doctor\’s

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A Land with No Guns

March 31, 2023 I recently wrote an essay suggesting that each State militia be circumscribed by a Congressional District, and, for each State militia to keep a registry of all gun ownership in that District as all gun owners will have to be part of a well-organized militia (per the 2nd Amendment). (See: A Well

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