August 22, 2021 This is it. This is my last written Doctor\’s Inn transmission. I had once hoped to provide constructive advice to the American Psyche — and perhaps I did in some small way (but never in the magnitude I had hoped!). Of course, what would be the sense of getting allotta people thinking […]
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
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11/11/19 Mayhem: Violent or damaging disorder; Chaos I have long maintained that US live in a State of Controlled Chaos. Allstate has released a few new \”Mayhem\” advertisements that really bother me. They are: Mayhem breaking into someone\’s car (after letting the owner know he would be doing so on the front door security system
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December 27, 2012 It’s always in-the-back-of-my-mind and it’s the excuse I give to people who can’t believe that I’ve never been to Hawaii: that if I visited this paradise I would never leave…I’d have a shack under a palm tree – kinda like that Corona commercial; I’d get up when I pleased and smoke a
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December 23, 2013 The wife has been telling me that I am too nice to-the-world! That I need to start getting meaner; or else everyone will continue taking advantage of me: my colleagues, my students, my boys, my gardener, my plumber, my house cleaners, my handyman (and even her). Indeed, I have found myself at
December 5, 2013 One man’s terrorist Is another man’s freedom fighter… Robyn Dixon, my beloved Times’ South African correspondent, had an article in this morning’s paper about Nelson Mandela’s precarious health. I was going to urge Robyn to take her writing about South Africa to-the-next-level, and quit being so preoccupied about apartheid (which has been
November 22, 1963 Tucked into my cozy office here in Woodland Hills, I am nonplussed by the rather cold, heavy wind blowing outside. I wonder, however, if the macrocosm vents around the entire country on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination — as it does here in Southern California… I felt compelled to send off
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October 10, 2013 I apologize to my readers for the dearth of new material, but I am in full tilt boogie teaching college again. And, for the first time — I have four classes — so that has tired me out and slowed me down considerably. In addition, I am also working on my third
September 7, 2013 I began this Autumn’s lectures to my college classes by emphasizing the koan: Nothing worth learning can be taught… …and while I’ve had vociferous complaints from teachers over-the-years when I’ve suggested that I truly believe this koan (and some token disagreement from my college students) – this Semester’s crop seem to realize
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August 30, 2013 I had been a veritable storehouse of poems…but…after Dr. J’s death, and the flight of my super ego — poetry inspiration seemed to dry up (though I have quite a few verses and stanzas scattered about on note paper). My writing drought got to the point that Giti asked me how my
