Jul 31, 2015
TRUMP CANDY
AMERICA’S NEW TASTELESS TREAT A short while before I headed off for a few weeks of wandering in the Canadian Rockies, Donald Trump...
Jun 17, 2015
AMERICA AFRAID OF ITSELF
SECOND AMENDMENT WET DREAMS [NOTE: The following essay was published just before a white lunatic with a handgun killed nine black people...
Apr 27, 2015
EXCEPTIONAL EXCEPTIONS
A NATION AT WAR WITH ITS CONSCIENCE In these early stages of the 2016 presidential election cycle in America, the race to proclaim...
Apr 17, 2015
TEXAS SOJOURN
JACK IN A COKE CAN AND MORE… I decided to go to Texas for a few weeks to commune with nature and talk to some Texans. So I headed for...
Feb 4, 2015
FAILED SNIPER
AMERICAN MORALITY PLAY The verdict is in – Americans can’t get enough of movie sniper mayhem. (American Sniper has grossed over $250M to...
Jan 1, 2015
ASSASSINATION COMEDY
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, MONEY IN THE BANK I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am having a grand time watching Tom Cruise and Meryl...
Nov 21, 2014
AMERICAN ENIGMA
MONEY TALKS, PROGRESSIVES WALK I have just returned from a month-long trip through a large swath of America’s southland. About a week...
Jun 12, 2014
NOT ONE MORE...
DEAFENING SILENCE WHILE CHILDREN DIE Are we having fun yet with our national gun obsession? It has been a routine deadly game for a long...
Apr 29, 2014
SECOND AMENDMENT NOT SO COOL
GEORGIA ON MY MIND I thought about going to the National Rifle Association convention last weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana just to see...
Apr 29, 2014
PARTY TIME
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, surrounded by supporters of the new Georgia gun bill, signing it into law. [Credit Brant Sanderlin/AJC, via...