For some reason, this morning I was recalling the Christmas season while we were at the Citadel and how our Christmas traditions impacted my whole life, and impacted it profoundly. I recall that we sold ourselves to the “knobs” in a parody of Saturnalia in order to raise funds to…

(A satire out of sorts) The lid on Pandora’s Box refuses to budge and out pops an explosive date, apparently somehow akin to July 4, 1776: January 6, 2021, and now a judicial decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, all joining the Black Lives matter movement, the Cancel Culture…

In the cases of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), the United States Supreme Court rendered ill-considered decisions that have polarized the United States electorate for half a century. They involved lazy, ill-conceived and hasty jurisprudence designed to address important…

Hubese una vez, en la hermosa ciudad de Manizales pero desde Bogotá, una mujer que la llamaban Juanita. Una mujer muy, muy especial. Una mujer con una historia larga y complicada pero más que todo una mujer hermosa y ejemplar. El mes de junio trae bajos muy bajos y altos…

The Colombian and United States Experiences Absence of Systemic Faith in Democracy: The Colombian and United States Experiences Faith in democracy is at a nadir. And with good reason. Democracy today is at best dysfunctional, in large part, because of voter participatory apathy. Perhaps it always has been. Widespread complaints…

The “Big Lie” in the United States is really that refusal by the judiciary at any level to investigate apparently credible allegations of electoral fraud which will forever taint the results of 2020 as a result of which a large segment of the United States population may never again trust…

No puedo dormir. Todavía no son las 4:00 a. m., pero llevo varias horas despierto esperando las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia. De un lado, camuflados, están las élites tradicionales de Colombia: los partidos tradicionales; los medios de comunicación corruptos, propiedad de la clase multimillonaria; el Estado colombiano; y, la comunidad…

I can’t sleep. It’s not yet 4:00 a.m. but I’ve been up for several hours as I await Colombia’s presidential elections. On one side, camouflaged, sit Colombia’s traditional elites, the corrupt billionaire class owned media, the Colombian state and the United States intelligence community backing a version of the Simpson’s…

Fathers’ day is a mostly ignored holiday, a superficial holiday, one taken for granted and most good fathers understand and don’t take being mostly ignored badly. Those that are recognized and treasured have an awesome reward. But too many who deserve some sort of recognition are not remembered at all…