Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
In a few hours in downtown Manhattan, our country will see the arrest, booking, and arraignment of former President Trump on criminal charges. No matter what happens this afternoon, this will be the first time that an ex-President has had to answer to criminal charges laid against them. It's not the first time that charges of misbehaviour in office have been contemplated for those who have served as President. There have been several impeachments and…
For over a year now, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Disney Company have been locked in an incredibly bitter and nasty public fight that is rather exceptional for those of us who have watched and experienced how Disney operates in Central Florida for decades. In a nutshell, Disney was granted extraordinary powers to essentially be a government in all but name when the Reedy Creek Improvement District was created in 1967. At the time,…
One of the leading voices of the "thoughts and prayers" squad in the aftermath of the school shooting in Nashville is none other than Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN 5) who happens to be the incumbent representative of the district that contains the school. Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words but I'm thinking this one is definitely worth the $1,000 the National Rifle Association put into his campaign coffers in the 2022…
Early this morning, the phone chirped out an alert that there was an active shooter situation in downtown Raleigh and that Ligon Middle School had been placed under a code yellow lockdown with the scene of the shooting literally being a couple of blocks away. In fact, I know that area very well as that is where I usually make a right turn to take the back way to the fields where Katie's lacrosse team…
It certainly did to me when my stepfather suggested we sit down and watch the movie adaptation of "Fiddler on the Roof" featuring legendary actor Chaim Topol playing the lead role of Tevye. The movie spanned *TWO* VHS tapes which should give you an idea of how long ago this conversation was and the state of video technology at the time! Oy vey! I'll confess that I had no idea what the movie was about…
OK, now that I've gotten the kind of heavy stuff out of the way...now we can go with the story I was originally planning on writing this evening. If we set the Wayback Machine for a little over two weeks ago, you would have found me in a classroom for the first time in about thirty years learning everything about becoming a Notary Public for the Old North State and then sitting one of the…
