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• How Bad is the USA?

  By gusmanning on December 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Based on a torrent of negative media coverage over the past few years, you could get the impression that the USA is a pretty bad place.  One way to assess how bad the USA might actually be would be to… Read More ›

• A Performance Review for the Media

  By gusmanning on October 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Often we notice something important while looking for something else.  After watching a semi-old (1981), movie, Absence of Malice with Sally Field and Paul Newman, I checked to see what the critics might have said about it.  The first thing… Read More ›

• A Centrist’s View of the California Governor’s Recall Election

  By gusmanning on August 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Ignoring goofy radio ads, the most obvious way to look at the California governor recall is that recalling Newsome would be “blaming him for everything”.  While that is a legitimate view, here is another equally legitimate view. California has been… Read More ›

• Ragged Old Flag, Part I

  By gusmanning on August 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  “Is this really a thing?  How do you even know it exists?”  As my daughter Sylvie spoke her bright green eyes sparkled with a challenge.  My son Kenny joined her with a puzzled, skeptical look. I started to respond.  “I… Read More ›

• My Brother’s Kids Wake Up to Woke

  By gusmanning on July 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  A warm wind blows across my backyard as I relax into a gin and tonic. It is in the 80’s with some sun and some shade. You can take your pick. As I think about getting a ball game on… Read More ›

• Waking Up to Woke II

  By gusmanning on July 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Waking up to Woke, Part II In earlier writing, I characterized some tenets of “woke” activism as follows: (1) Systemic racism is endemic, though we have no evidence for it. (2) White people generally are responsible for bad things other… Read More ›

• Hoppy’s Lecture on Liberty & Property – 1961

  By gusmanning on July 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  It was Friday, and raining in central Ohio, as I took my seat in history class just to the left of the aisle and one row back from Cary Ross’s seat on the right of the aisle.  From this vantage… Read More ›

• What Gilbert and Sullivan Mean to Me

  By gusmanning on May 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  What Gilbert and Sullivan Mean to Me The oeuvre of Gilbert and Sullivan occupies an iconic niche in anglo culture, where it stands alone.  Gilbert and Sullivan works are often compared to others that feature a small orchestra and witty,… Read More ›

• Waking Up To Woke

  By gusmanning on April 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The term “woke” has acquired wide currency.  According to Google, it means: “awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice”.  Surprisingly, it seems that people on all sides of the culture war have a similar understanding of “woke”. … Read More ›

• What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?

  By gusmanning on March 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The title above is actually the name of a 1968 film starring Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard.  In this film the two actors, who usually play straight-arrow types, are weirdly cast as a beatnik/hippie artist couple living in sin… Read More ›

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