Ain’t Necessarily So
Religion addresses a human yearning to fathom our place in an unfathomable universe and to immortalize our earthly mortality.
Plain-Spoken Politics with a Long Island accent
Meeting The Media
I hope journalists have faith that their best judgment merits attention. It’s not elitist to expect people to have minds worth stretching.
Ides of Ramadan
Dorian Dale further contemplates conflict with Iran and imagines the screenplay that might ultimately find its way to the Silver Screen. (Inspired by real and potentially real events. Bonus points if you can identify the mystery couple.)
Ayatollyah So!
Rosy neo-con visions of sugar plum oil fields and Jeffersonian democracy fairies transforming the Middle East have blurred beyond recognition over the past decade. So, it’s a good time to change the subject and refocus
Betting Long on the Island
In a world of shrinking newsrooms, Long Island has so far managed to remain a haven for journalism and educated opinion spanning a breadth of perspective.
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
You absolutely must be the primary sentinel of your own health. To be effective in that capacity, you have to be in touch with your body and deduce what is good or bad for it. Today’s given wisdom is often tomorrow’s discredited procedure and may even be hazardous to your health.
Fat Cat Manifest: Rev. Ike’s Thinkonomics
If you guaranteed most folks an income next year of one million bucks, but it came with a 70% tax rate, what percentage would sign on the bottom line? Do you suppose there would be a huge groundswell of tea baggers with five-figure incomes turning up their noses on principle over this outlandish top marginal tax rate (which still prevailed in Reagan’s first term)? I, for one, would sign up in a heartbeat then register Republican and rejoin the NRA, lest anyone try to get their mitts on my remaining $300,000.
Fracking in Canada
As furious debate over fracking continues in the United States… Canada struggles to balance the economic benefits drilling has brought with the reports of water contamination and air pollution that have accompanied them.
Philosopher King Wenceslas
As the playwright’s allegory is a triumph of farce over fear, so too was Havel’s call to “step out of living within the lie” that was the “post-totalitarian system.” By the end of year, Czecheslovakia’s Velvet Revolution had toppled, without firing a shot, a dictatorship that violently suppressed the ‘Prague Spring’ twenty years before.
Tea Party Sellouts
I wonder what the national Tea Party leaders think of this chapter in Suffolk run by retired second tier Republicans living on government pensions.
