Category Archives: Intro to My Writings

February 19, 2017: On this date 75 years ago President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 9066 authorizing the removal and evacuation and eventual internment in concentration camps of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast … Continue reading →

On the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States women all across the country and in Washington, D.C. marched in protest to the regime of the new president. Here in Eugene the … Continue reading →

I was recently chastised for thinking that Donald Trump wasn’t my president – I’ve never said that as I respect the Office of The Presidency. I believe that there is nothing we share in common in terms of issues, values, … Continue reading →

I recently commented on a posting on Face Book of 20 million Muslims openly protesting ISIS in the Middle East and I called for a similar protest by American Christians against the KKK. Several FB participants chastised me for making … Continue reading →

Alleged Problem: Large numbers of people showing up at a precinct to vote using someone else’s name. (Not really a problem but for argument’s sake bear with me…) Question: How many such votes would it take to sway an election? … Continue reading →

Jack Riemer, Houston Chronicle: February 10, 2001~ On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a … Continue reading →

Barbara W. Tuchman; Alfred A. Knopf, New York; 1984; pg. 234. Barbara W. Tuchman in her volume, “The March of Folly,” describes in painful detail the processes that individuals and groups pursue in spite of commanding evidence that the path … Continue reading →

Race is a pretty delicate and volatile issue. It isn’t a simple matter. It is one of the many elephants we have in our proverbial living rooms we don’t often talk about. And unfortunately in our complex social encounters it … Continue reading →

So you think you’re racism free? You think you don’t see color? You believe you see the humanity in a person and don’t see the color of their skin or the slant of their eyes? You believe that your parents … Continue reading →

This is not a simple matter. The basic operating principles and mechanisms are pretty simple, but we as humans have a raft of emotions and conditioning that complicate things a lot.