Final Exit

I have previously speculated that Man would more likely stumble than march into Oblivion. The anachronistic worldwide resurgence of religious fundamentalism now causes me to suspect that we may end our days goose-stepping toward the Abyss shouting "Hosannah!"

Believers cope with fear of death by denying Death; Rationalists deal with fear of death by taming their Fear.

Law & Order

My state senator introduced legislation requiring that TVs be labeled with a Warning that the set could present a danger if it falls on a small child. Do we really need a Law to remind us that accelerating heavy objects can prove hazardous to one's health?!

Addlepated federal legislators passed a Resolution affirming the importance in America of Christmas and Christianity. Non-Christian Americans never had a doubt!

When one insists on winning at any cost, one is more likely to pay too high a price.

Domestic Terrorism

Our failing educational system is a far greater threat to U.S. national security than Al Qaeda!


One day, our uneducated, disaffected inner-city Minority youth may become our own insurgency.

The world's arsenal of nuclear weapons could incinerate 400,000 Hiroshimas. None of those WMDs belonged to Saddam Hussein. How many are ours?

Where's the beef?

John McCain's "Big Ideas" ad (a quixotic litany of hollow promises) may be the silliest, most inane and insulting (to the intelligence of the electorate) political commercial I have ever seen. How 'bout a few Doable Ideas, senator?

Hillary Clinton's early tenacity was admirable; her subsequent mulishness was not. I want a Commander-in-Chief with the judgment to recognize and accept moments of inevitability, when it may be prudent to cut one's losses and stop fighting.

Making a Difference

To cynics who question the capacity of any individual to effect significant change: Didn't Jesus? Didn't Gandhi? Didn't Martin Luther King, Jr.? Didn't Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR? Didn't Guttenberg? Pasteur? Edison? Didn't Hitler? Didn't Stalin? Didn't Mao?