2020 has been an unusual year to say the least. Routine became almost synonymous with nostalgia. One thing I’m keeping the same is that I am taking the second half of December off from my version of live blogging. The next several articles will have been written well before publishing. (Unlike Congress I make sure my work is finished before I take off.) However I cannot leave without taking a look at a few tidbits before I go. Let’s explore. Continue reading As I Head To Some Time Off
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A Different Bar
A few minutes before 9pm last Tuesday night I settled in front of one of several flat screen color televisions in my new townhouse in Wake Forest, North Carolina to watch President Obama’s farewell address to the nation. My thoughts were on what I consider the benchmark Presidential farewell address which I watch some 56 years earlier as a very young boy in front of my parents’ lone black and white television in their Cheektowaga, New York home. Could Barack Obama get over the extremely high bar set by Dwight Eisenhower? Let’s explore. Continue reading A Different Bar