It’s going to be all right. My margarine tells me so. It’s more than margarine. It’s Vicks VapoRub and oat milk. And more. As we enter a new year, a few things have got me thinking mankind and our planet aren’t doomed. Indeed, better things are ahead. Why? Well, first, my margarine. I’m a toast…
“If I had one wish this holiday season,” mused Steve Martin many Christmases ago, “it would be that all the children join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.” So appropriate. So needed in discordant times. If granted another wish, he added, it would be “$30 million a month to be…
“Onward Christian soldiers. Marching as to war. With the cross of Jesus going on before.” Raised a Methodist, I was a little confused by the hymn. The lyrics meant well, surely. But was the Jesus of Sunday School a gun-toting militant? I guess it depends on what war Christians think they are fighting. Kyle Rittenhouse.…
In this season, recall what the most reputable Ebenezer Scrooge said when a charity appealed for help with so many “in want of common necessaries.” Retorted Scrooge, “Are there no prisons?” Prisons there are, Sir. But nowhere close to enough prisons to house all Americans on the verge of defaulting on their student loans. That…