“The Worst Experience of His Life”

The mainstream media are not telling you the full story about the current immigration crisis.  Coverage of Tuesday’s immigration hearing provides a dramatic example.

It’s almost impossible for your heart not to go out to some of the kids now caught in our nation’s political tug-of-war over immigration policy.  There’s not one of them who doesn’t have a very sad, touching story to tell.

But even so, don’t believe everything you’re hearing in the mainstream media about the crisis.  You’re not getting the full story.  Coverage—or lack thereof—of Tuesday’s Democratic Progressive Caucus hearing on the current immigration crisis provides a stunning example.  For one thing, even though the event gave us a rare opportunity to hear directly from some of the children themselves, coverage of this hearing has been hard to come by.  And not all of those who did cover it offered the full picture of what went on.

Weird Coincidences and Strange Happenings: Two New Ones

A premonition I wrote about a few weeks ago turns out to have been even more dead-on accurate than I originally thought.

About a month ago I launched the first of several planned postings exploring what may or may not be paranormal phenomena I’ve experienced over the course of my life.   In that posting, I briefly mentioned that I’d recently had yet another dream that had turned out to be prophetic.   The dream was about someone who’d once been a very close friend.  For various reasons, we drifted apart many, many years ago, and I’ve since moved several times.  But I’ve never forgotten about this person.   In the dream, he was going through a major medical crisis.  I inquired and found out that he was, indeed, facing very serious health issues that previously had been unknown to me.

Radio Interview: Democratic Recruitment Day

Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Don Jorgensen joined us in the studio on Monday for "recruitment day."  His mission was to try to persuade me (and other independent voters like me) that now's the time for us to switch our loyalty to the Democratic Party. (The GOP got its crack at it the previous week, and you can find that posting here.)

Celebrating Hollywood's Exciting New Movie Genre: The Vom Com

An unflinching examination of Hollywood's unflinching examination of some things that really should be examined only flinchingly, if at all.  The movie industry has become obsessed with—well, read on.

I have a strict policy about growing older and growing up:  succumb to the former, because it beats the hell out of the alternative, but resist the later.  For that reason, certain forms of juvenile, sophomoric humor still tickle me.  Chief among them is bathroom humor.  I admit it:  there is just something intrinsically funny about certain biological functions going awry.

Every person’s body has at least three major avenues of substance ingress and/or egress.  Sometimes they’re under our full control, and sometimes they’re not.  It’s the egress part that gets you.  Because of long-established tribal taboos, there are only a few socially acceptable places for seeing to such functions, and woe betide the person who has a misfire.  The importance of this is impressed on us from a very early age.  And it takes a long time to get it right (some of us take longer than others).  Early incidents where mistakes were made tend to leave a lasting impression.  Such regrettable episodes, and the embarrassment that comes with them, serve to guide our future behavior and help us fit into the sometimes complicated matrix of human social interaction.  Stacks and stacks of books and research papers have been written about this, starting with Sigmund Freud.

Celebrating Hollywood's new genre: The VomCom (radio version)

Lately Hollywood has become obsessed with -- well, give it a listen.  If you dare.

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A foolproof way to get rid of a telephone solicitor

Listen to what I said when one called me.  Yes, you can do this at home.

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