Founding Fathers
Those familiar with the founding of this nation, forged through the crafting of a national constitution, know that two general themes characterized its underpinnings: 1) the rights of a […]
Musings
Paradise Lost
With all due respect to Billy Joel and Barbara Streisand, if you take a New York State of Mind too far you get Joni Mitchell in spades. Don’t it always […]
Civility
In the 1960s, counterculture poet Allen Ginsberg spoke to the student body at the University of Buffalo. As was his style, his speech was laced with profanity and sexual crudeness. […]
Walkabout
In 1775, only four communities in the United States could properly be called cities: Philadelphia with 34,000 residents, trailed by New York, Boston, and Charlestown. There were only about 2.5 […]
Time Machine
As far as we know, no one has developed a true time machine. We’re talking about a device like the one in the movie, The Time Machine, where inventor George […]
Truth or Consequences
A young student stands behind his parents and smirks as they tell the principal that their child would never strike another student. When shown the security tape evidence, the parents […]
Boiling Frogs
It happens every day, in every aspect of our lives. Little, imperceptible things which go unnoticed. And then we wake up in a mess and wonder why. People throw cigarette […]
It’s Only A Game
It’s brown, made of leather, has an odd shape, and has an average net worth of $1.43 billion in 2014 for thirty-two American cities. You guessed it; it’s an NFL […]
Statesmen and Politics
Former NYS Governor Mario Cuomo died last week. The headlines of the Rochester, NY newspaper eulogized him as “Not a typical politician”. Sadly, if politics was not already such a […]
Memories or Regrets
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, […]