Let me play “Devil’s Advocate.” I’ve made no secret of my dislike of Donald Trump – at least as he presents himself in his campaign. When you watch the man acting out his “tough guy” role (he consistently does this) his anger is open and apparent. His word view and his perspective on political life… continue reading »
Yesterday’s commentary, written with an attempt at humor in the face of serious issues about our approaching election, was – I admit – a light-hearted skip through the fields of fancy regarding the eternal human condition. The current political situation is serious enough that I needed some means to bring under control my frustration, fueled… continue reading »
What fun America is! It has taken three months of frontier life here on the Sea of Cortez in Baja, Mexico for me to realize this. I have gained this insight because life on this desert-like peninsula surprisingly intersected with the written thoughts of a 17th century philosopher I had never read before: Spinoza. This… continue reading »
This Trump thing is simply proof of the accumulated strangeness of Americans’ education, intellectual paralysis, political naivete, and susceptibility to a fantastic media con game. When radio, TV, magazines, and newspapers – 95% owned by only three gigantic corporations only motivated to sell more and more of their products via ads and public relations programs… continue reading »
Let me dispel a belief commonly held by Americans about Mexico that is certainly not true, at least here in La Paz, within The Sea of Cortez. Drug dealers and violence are not the norm in this small, charming, toast-warm village of two hundred fifty thousand courteous citizens. If the dealers are here, they are… continue reading »
