Why do we Write?

Everyone has a different reason to write. Some like stories, and can find a publisher to pay them to create. Others write briefs to persuade a court, or articles to sway a constituency, or columns to move or amuse casual readers. For some, it is an unburdening; a barely cloaked…

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The Changing Recipe of Pleasure Lesion Stew

We've all recited: "Eye pleasure legion stew the flag, an tooda republic for ..." with maybe a glimmering of what it meant. The ideas are too complex for the school age children to parse. It is a mantra intended to imprint kids so that later they don't question the ideas…

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John McCain Votes Early … for Obama!

Yes, friends, it's true. But it's not accurate. Most of the times I've stayed in Cincinnati I have stayed at the house of one John McCain. He told me Dan, I thought you might get a kick from this.  I was contacted by the Sandusky Register.  They had been trying…

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