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The Confederate Monuments Issue-Revisited
After a very respectful back-and-forth on LinkedIn, one that could serve as a model for our Congressional leaders who are hopelessly caught in a negative play-to-your-base battle instead of listening to each other and compromising, I have decided that I was wrong. I was wrong. The Confederate monuments and all references to the Confederate leaders must come down if we truly want to heal as a country. Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa. Continue reading
The Confederate Question-A Different Take
I sing a different tune when it comes to removing the names of Confederate leaders (many of whom also served the United States) from monuments, schools, buildings and streets (collectively, referred to as the Confederate monuments issue). I see a big difference between the Confederate monuments issue and the Confederate battle flag issue. Continue reading
#BlackLivesMatter Re-imagined
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Drew Brees comments about the flag, together with his second comment as well as his wife’s comment. I agreed with his first patriotic comment about the flag and still do. And, at least … Continue reading
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Essential v. Non-Essential from a Different Vantagepoint
I think that one of the most interesting questions for courts in these unconstitutional overreaches by states and local governments lies in the determination of who’s essential v. who’s not. There seems to be a lot of inconsistency in these … Continue reading
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This Unconstitutional Overreach Just May Have a Silver Lining
This surreal experience with the Wuhan Chinese virus has showed the true colors of many elected officials. They don’t really care about their constituents. They care a lot about exercising power and having control of their constituents. Some of these … Continue reading
People have lost their minds…
With all of the hullabaloo over the so-called coronavirus, I have watched people lose their minds over precautions being taken. No baseball. No March Madness. I could care a less about the NBA, but there’s no pro basketball either. No … Continue reading
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Don’t Bank with Fifth Third Bank
I can’t be any more blunt than that. In less than one year, I’ve encountered three separate episodes of so-called regulatory holds on deposits that I’ve made via mobile banking or via a bank ATM into my Fifth Third account. … Continue reading
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Whatever Happened to the Loyal Opposition?
Today’s politics has not been our finest hour. However, I have been seriously dissapointed by the House Democrats, who have been in the majority now since the last election cycle, but have done next to nothing legislatively except investigate the … Continue reading
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High Times; Peaceful Times
Accompanied by friends, I decided to make my first Cannabis Cup in Clio MI over the weekend. Thinking we’d let the initial throng float in before we showed up, we arrived about 3:15 p.m., thinking that we’d waltz right in. … Continue reading
Banking a Fifth Third Better? Bank Mathematics Under the Microscope
This is a true story, one that doesn’t have an ending yet. Another title for this piece could have been “Bank Mathematics: When $1,350 + $4,650=-$3,300.” On the evening of February 22, 2019, when my Fifth Third checking account balance … Continue reading
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