Heerlen           After being hit on the head with a 2-by-4, it’s usual to be a little wobbling and to have some trouble getting up off the floor.  If you don’t personally know the feeling, then you’ve seen it in enough action movies to get a sense of what it would be like.  The recent election …

            New Orleans       Whoever believed that sucking up doesn’t work doesn’t have a clue to understanding the emerging Trump administration.  The litmus test for thriving and surviving in Trump world is the ability to master limitless groveling, it seems.  The evidence is everywhere. Foreign leaders, remembering the first term, are reportedly reminding each other …

            Pearl River          I can’t be the only one who is sick and tired of the battleground, swing states political organizing practice, because I sure as heck am up to my eyelids with that mess.  Living in Louisiana, if I didn’t read the national papers daily, I might have forgotten there was a presidential …