Cafe Jack

The essay in the NYT by Timothy Egan titled " A President Can Govern in Poetry " reminded me of Amanda Gorman's wonderful read...

Walt Whitman wrote in his poem  Song of Myself,   "Do I contradict myself?  Very well then I contradict myself,  (I am large, I contain...

Sources are reporting that Donald Trump has challenged fellow septuagenarian Joe Biden to a pissing contest. Trump who claims to have the p...

Amy Coney Barrett, nominated to replace Justice Ruth Ginsberg, is a member of the group People of Praise. This ecumenical, but mostly Cathol...

The quoted text below is from volume I pages 667-669 of Will and Ariel Durant's series of books " The Story of Civilization " ...

B and I went to see Hunter S. Thompson "speak" at the old  Gallatin Gateway Inn four decades ago or so. He was with Jerry Jeff ...

Enough reading and talking. Dance  and  dance  and dance some more.

I think the 1995 movie Smoke has some subtle wisdom about paying attention to beautiful things around us. On the topic of philosophically i...

Reina Del Cid and the musicians around her don't seem to take themselves all that seriously but I think they are seriously talented.

Half a century ago or so my Mother made a comment about an engineer she'd met playing bridge. That comment has stuck in my porous brain ...

This scene with Jack Nicholson from the 1978 movie "Goin South" seems classic to me. You would have to watch the whole movie to un...

If you live in a cave or a right-wing safe space you may not be aware of what the Republican party and their leader Donald J. Trump are doin...

Kurt Anderson cites the  1971 Powell memo  as the beginning of the takeover of American government by corporate business interests. I usuall...

The Republican party would like you to be afraid that radicals, like Joe Biden, want to take over the country. If you hang out in Republican...

Mystery Science Theater 3000  can be pretty funny.  It aired for about ten years starting in 1989. I used to watch it with my daughters when...