April 19, 2020 Music and Lyrics by Peter Tosh I believe these song lyrics should serve as an aperitif for my next attempt… Downpresser man Where you gonna run to? Downpresser man Where you gonna run to? Downpresser man Where you gonna run to? All along that day You gonna run to the sea But […]

April 8, 2020 This goddamned novel coronavirus has got me fucked up!  I just emerged from 3 weeks of online programming and grading — neither of which I am very proficient at — hence the gap between essays.  I\’m Old School and feel retirement just around the corner…perhaps one-more-year if I don\’t wake up one

March 16, 2020 This is usually my favorite time of the year — when I get to watch exciting NCAA basketball!  And now this !@#$% coronavirus has laid waste to the tournaments!  As-a-matter-of-fact, there are no sports left to watch — unless you count horse racing as a sport (and I hope you don\’t!).  Even

March 12, 2020 When Obama looked like he was on the winning track for his first term as President — I warned him to get out of the race — lest a lone, crazed gunman should end his life (being of mixed race but still looking Black).  I didn\’t think White America and those-powers-that-be were

February 25, 2020 I must apologize to my readers who contact me and hope that I will respond to them.  I do appreciate your reaching out — but I truly don\’t have the time to correspond.  I would love to dialog with each-and-every-one-of-you..but preparing lectures, grading, music — and of course — writing for The

February 11, 2020 I wanted to devote an entire attempt to apologizing to Judge Percy Anderson — but then I read a nasty piece on Kobe from two female Times contributors that motivated me to rather, write about their myopic article (which made the front page!). So let me wrap up a quick apology to

January 26, 2020 It\’s rather ironic that many Brits and other Europeans came to this country to escape the iron-fisted reigns of monarchies — only to have 53 Republican senators in 2020 ready and willing to overturn the constitutional provisions designed to prevent a monarchy from ever taking hold over US. But the 53 seem

January 24, 2020 As a long-starved Dodger fan — I was somewhat relieved by the news that the Houston Astros had to resort to cheating to defeat us in the 2017 World Series.  I\’m betting it was also a great relief to Clayton Kershaw, Yu Darvish and Brandon Morrow to learn, that perhaps, they hadn\’t

January 14, 2019 You can choose your friends, but you can\’t choose your family!  And because of this — we Californians must invest more into the Family and help It succeed in what its social function has always been: to prepare children to become socially responsible adults… I wanted to write about LAX being the

December 14, 2019 I had sworn off writing about The Jack-ass some months back!  And I think I have done very well avoiding Him.  But this impeachment thang has raised the state of our union to Defcon 1!! Mike Huckabee is already in charge of The Idiot\’s 2024 campaign — which makes me think that