Good morning! It’s Thursday, so time for a mélange of contributions … POLICE MISCONDUCT The news sadly is filled with stories of police...

Good morning! VIRTUE SIGNALING We are in an era where most of us want to be do the right thing and be “on the right side of history.”...

Good morning! THE POSTAL SERVICE AND AN INSPIRATIONAL LETTER Who would have thought the postal service would become a focus of our...

Good morning, I have been studying French off-and-on since Junior High School. I love the language and regret never having developed a...

Good morning and happy weekend, Time again for music and poetry to help us through… MUSIC If you’ve been reading these Musings, you know...

Greetings and Happy August 14th! Today is the birthday of my mother and my sister, born 1928 and 1958, respectively. As all of you who...

Good morning! TIME FOR SOME BRAND MARKETING My friend Glenn Raines was commenting on the bad press perfectly reasonable ideas get. They...

Good morning! The founders were onto something when they considered the value of a free press to a democracy. As opposed to accusing them...

Good morning! NOVELIZATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY I find one of the most enjoyable of genres is “alternative history.” There are some...

Happy Sunday! As has been my recent tradition, Sunday we revisit the pronouncements of our President from the last week, together with...

Greetings and Happy Weekend! The poetry today is written by a fellow recovering from tuberculosis in a hospital in the late 19th...

Good morning! QUOTATION OF THE DAY In an exchange with Bradley Mindlin the other day, we were lamenting the politicization of the...

Greetings, Another Thursday and more from friends… ANOTHER VIEW OF INCARCERATION From my long-time friend, Mark DiMaria, a thoughtful...

Good morning! QUOTE OF THE DAY “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” - Benjamin Franklin LEGAL MOVIES...

Good morning! First things first. It’s Andrea’s birthday! Happy birthday to the woman who puts up with me (and these musings!). This week...

Greetings, I was all set with a Musing for today when the news forced me to do an about-face and instead address the latest in a long...

Greetings and happy Sunday! Keeping with my tradition of pausing on Sundays to recount the great wisdom and guidance of our supreme...

Happy Saturday and Happy August! August is the birth month of three of my four favorite women. My mother, my wife and my sister all were...

Dear Friends, I had today’s Musings written up and ready to go. Then several things came rushing to my mind from the past 48 hours that...