MY PILLOW GUY                           4/1/2020 «God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on,» Lindell said, referencing the date President Donald Trump was elected. «God had been taken out of schools and lives. A nation had turned its back on God. I encourage you to use this time at home to […]

THE VERY GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY           3/21/2020 The very good; CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash praised President Trump’s press conference addressing the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, saying he demonstrated the kind of leadership Americans need in a crisis.“This is an important thing to note and to applaud from an American standpoint [and] from a human standpoint,” Ms. Bash said on […]

EL TIRO POR LA CULATA            15 de marzo del 2020 Si alguna vez escuchas esa expresión simplemente significa que algo no ha salido como esperabas, es decir, que has hecho algo esperando un resultado y, no sólo no has conseguido el resultado que esperabas sino que además el resultado ha sido todo lo contrario a […]

GREG COTE’S COLUMN ON DWAYNE WADE 2/21/2020 Fate challenged Wade and his family to show who they are, and what they showed was love, unequivocal love. What they showed was the potential to influence thinking, soften prejudices and foment understanding — to remind us how much bigger than basketball the real world is.   Wade had […]

CHUTZPAH                                            1/25/2020 In Hebrew, chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has overstepped the boundaries of accepted behavior. … Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as «gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, […]

A DREAM THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER 1/20/2020   “In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity […]

A TALE OF TWO POLITICS                  1/16/2020 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” Charles Dickens, «A Tale of Two Cities».   […]

A DOSE OF REALITY TESTING               12/19/2019                                                        Reality testing is a concept initially devised by Sigmund Freud which is used by some therapists to assist clients in distinguishing their […]