A PARTIAL LIST OF PROFILES… (…of some key international players from today’s news headlines) We should never believe that the subject of -international affairs- is either dull or un-intriguing. Far from it because it seems to be a never-ending soap
USA
REFLECTIONS ON PRESIDENTS’ DAY (…and our abandonment of the ideals they tried to set for us) Old George and Honest Abe must be rolling in their graves about what we have become as a society and nation today, having apparently
USING CALCULATED HISSY FITS… (…as a way to play hardball diplomacy…) He may be a new style oligarch and latter-day Czar of all the Russia’s, but Vladimir Putin still operates and retains the mindset and perspectives of a Soviet KGB
MAKING NICE WHILE TALKING TOUGH WITH EACH OTHER… (in a setting of ostentatious grand luxury) Things have really changed in this world of ours. Who could have guessed, even just a few short months ago, that the leader of the
HAS NORTH KOREA BECOME AN ASYLUM RUN BY BI-POLAR INMATES… (…aiming for another round of aggression?) Ever since the end of WWII, when we and our erstwhile Soviet Russian wartime allies partitioned the Korean peninsula for occupation purposes, much in
A TWISTED VERSION OF ROBERT FROST’S… (…good fences make good neighbors) President Trump is apparently going all out with his campaign pledge to build a wall along our border with Mexico. Understandably that’s not going over very well in Mexico
THE ELECTION LOSER’S POST-PARTUM ANGST… (from not understanding or believing in our constitutionally mandated electoral process) The tectonic political shock of Mr. Trump ending up as the President-elect over Secretary Clinton has unleashed waves of protesters all over the country
REGARDLESS OF WHO COMES UP TO BAT IN NOVEMBER… (…there’s not likely to be any joy in Mudville we can expect to come from it) This presidential election cycle shows us how far astray we citizens of Mudville (USA) have
POLITICISING WHAT SHOULD BE A NON-ISSUE (…seems to be much ado about nothing) Our country is in such a good shape that, from the President on down through various state legislatures, they apparently have nothing more serious to be concerned
YET ANOTHER CASUAL COMMEMORATION (…of what now seems like ancient history) Seventy three years ago, on December 7th, 1941…almost three quarters of a century ago…we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Japan. That event not only launched us into