Gorbachev.
When the news came across my phone yesterday that Mikhail Gorbachev had died, I got a little nostalgic. Gorbachev was the last leader of the old Soviet Union. He brought…
I doubt we see much.
I’m wondering if this is what we are going to see when the redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit is finally released. Just a lot of blacked out words and lines. A judge…
I was wrong. (And other things.)
I remember the days when you waited until after Labor Day to start your political campaign for a November election. Not anymore. It’s the morning after the primary. I was…
Primary Election Day.
It’s primary Election Day in Florida. So far, it’s been a rough and tumble season. The political ads have been tough. Really tough. One of the big decisions to be…
“Old-fashioned corner druggist.”
I spent some time this weekend going through some boxes I’m sending to storage. In one of them, some of my pharmacist dad’s tools of the trade. Ray Rhodes had…
Not going down without a fight.
No surprise here. Liz Cheney lost her Wyoming primary yesterday. She lost big. No surprise there either. The question now… what’s she gonna do next? There’s talk of a presidential…
Hope they had plenty of meatballs.
We’ve got some crazy video out Shanghai, China, of customers being locked in an IKEA store. They can be seen fighting to get out as security guards were forcing them…
Years of anger.
I spent much of the weekend thinking about Salman Rushdie. By now, you know the author was attacked and stabbed multiple times while preparing to make a speech in western…
Finally, the right direction.
All of a sudden, good news about the economy. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but there are some positive signs about things. Let’s start with gas prices. AAA is…
Back to school.
Around here, most kids are heading back to school today. It seems so early for it to be happening. At the end of the school year in May, I was…