Boy I don’t envy the Republicans. Looking at the 2016 election, and the possibility of facing the formidable Hillary---what are they gonna do?

What would you do if you belonged to a party that has historically opposed every piece of social welfare legislation that so-called minority groups have over the years favored---minority groups that will soon make up the majority?

Let me put it another way. Your party over the years has dismissed or ignored Hispanics, who now make up half the population, and who caused your defeat in the last election. Now, if you’re a Republican, you will disagree...

With the appointment of the new Pope in Rome, much is being written about his being the first South American to hold the office, if it can be called that, and the nature of his stance during the brutal past wars his country engaged in. However, every Pope has had past baggage, just like every major world religion has much in common with other competing religions. Often, the only difference between the major religions of the world is the false belief of the practitioners that their religion is truer and better than others.

If we look at religions in a highly abbreviated format, we can see m...

We need alternative sports.

Don't you get tired of the same old sports? A guy throws a sphere covered with cowhide and a guy with a piece of wood tries to hit it. If he hits it, another guy tries to pick up the sphere and throw it to another guy before the guy who had the piece of wood can drop the piece of wood and run across a pad fixed on the ground.

In other words, baseball.

Or, a bunch of mostly African American men grown huge from ingesting steroids try to run with a piece of cowhide over a chalk line drawn on the grass. Sometimes they throw the cowhide to each other as they run al...

I was in the 1979 Odyssey Theatre Ensemble performance of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in Santa Monica with the late wonderful character actor Logan Ramsey, a 50-year veteran of movies, television and stage. The rough-and-tumble of this play (I violently shake up Ramsey) was eventually too much for Logan, who had a heart condition. After a few months, he had to leave the show. Logan was a truly great actor little recognized and often played character parts with a cynical or con-man edge. His wife Anne was also an actor, and played Mama in Throw Mama from the Train with Billy Crystal and Dan...

Don’t you just love science? Don't you love it when scientists just go ahead and do something that will radically impact your life, and you have no say in it?

Take genetic engineering.

Genetic engineering is the altering of a plant (or organism) by sewing part of another plant onto it--thus changing the first plant's DNA, or gene blueprint. In other words, if I cross a redwood tree with a sunflower, I might get a reddish, wooden, five-hundred-foot-tall sunflower.

The alleged purpose of genetic engineering is to increase the food value of plants, or to make them more resistant to insects ...

(Reader’s Note: This is a letter I received from a Firearms Association of National Allied Tea-Party Incorporated Conglomerate (FANATIC) member named Billy Bob Lee Harvey John Wayne Gacy Butler).

Dear Left-Wing Traitor:

I am five-foot-three, 140 pounds.

My gun is who I am. Love me. Love my gun. I R a patriot. I live where real Amer-cuns live. I be a member of the association. We carry the Bible and our guns.

We wear armbands with the gun association on ‘em. Many of us are rural gas station and Wal Mart attendants, real Ameri-cuns, the working class, the backbone of the country. N...

You hypocrites! You phonies!

If you’re a conservative, the Republican figurative train wreck that was the presidential election has left you limp, despondent, but most conservative-like, angry, bitter, a bad loser, eager for revenge. The only hope you’ve got is the so-called Benghazi-gate, the accusation that Obama, the (to you),Kenyan-born socialist traitor, committed wrongful acts that resulted in the murder of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and several others, and the automatic usual traditional denials and cover-up that followed.

This is all you’ve got after your take on the election...

It’s after the election and three top-level Republican GOP strategists meet to discuss what went wrong. They are in the 441st floor of a penthouse suite in a downtown corporate skyscraper.

Dave – I feel sick.

Bob – Me too.

Chuck – Where is that ditsy woman assistant of yours’ with our coffee?

Dave – Why did you hire her?

Chuck – I wanted someone who would do menial chores for us who we could underpay because she’s a woman.

Dave – Okay. Well. What are we gonna do? We’ve lost America. That’s what O’Reilly said on TV. You heard him. Our Southern and Midwest Strategy didn’t work. We thoug...

There are some lies that are so big that if you tell them over and over, a certain number of people will believe, like throwing spaghetti on a wall. A certain percentage of it will stick.

The Nazis in Germany in 1938 knew this. They said the Jews lost them the First World War. The Jews were to blame for everything wrong in Germany. A lot of Germans wanted to believe this.

When I hear a conservative say the Republican Party is for smaller government, for cutting government, and the liberals never want to cut government or spending, I have to shake my head. Given that no Republican Adminis...