FROM MY CORNER Trigger Finger Trump An American Border agent this week shot and killed a twenty-year-old Guatemalan woman in Rio Bravo, Texas. Claudia Gonzalez was a trained accountant who had crossed into the United States seeking her American dream: a job. Federal officials told a variety of changing stories to justify the killing, but… continue reading »

FROM MY CORNER An Alternative Vision Becoming a person sensitive to the needs of human beings seriously challenges Trump’s mental capacity.  At the most basic level, he is simply the logical consequence of one of the most decrepit decisions our Supreme Court has ever made. The “Citizens United” decision raised gigantic U.S. Corporations, designed solely… continue reading »

FROM MY CORNER Out of America I recently viewed again the marvelous film “Out of Africa” based on Danish Baroness Karen Blixen’s book. Now, I have gotten the book and am reading it. Within the first pages she describes the land before her farm in Africa the following way: “Everything that you saw made for… continue reading »

FROM MY CORNER No Despair: Just Exasperation One of my high school classmates, who seems to loyally read my comments about the condition of the country, emailed me recently. Responding to a down day I’d experienced and written about, she said she was sorry I was feeling despair. That got me to thinking: am I… continue reading »