“Transactional” Pinocchios and Humpty Dumptys How about, that Kid Rock ??? Marketing his “Made in Detroit” t-shirts that were not made in Detroit. With his credibility then challenged, the Kid (a “dyed in the wool” supporter of our “Transactional”… Pinocchio President) tells us that everyone knows his “Made in Detroit” t-shirts were not made in […]
HEY!!! RIGHT WING CHRISTIANS MAGA & AMERICA FIRST… HEAR THIS!!! PINOCCHIO IS NOT… THE WAY THE TRUTH THE LIGHT NOR THE GOLDEN RULE I spent a lifetime “tracking the details” of America’s divergent, political paths… Right-Wing Republicans vs Left Wing Liberals, and an occasional Independent (remember Ross Perot). Deft, quick and coordinated, I spent […]
AMERICA’S PHONIO IN CHIEF As my Irish Grandmother, Mary McKelvey, would say… “Oh, the phoniness of it all.” Donald “Phonio in Chief” Trump (aka the Grim Reaper… Judge, Jury and Executioner) orders the blow-ups of boats in the Caribbean Sea (and the extrajudicial deaths of uncharged Venezuelans) to supposedly curtail drug shipments. Yet, at […]
POLITICAL HOPELESSNESS 2025 Vic, you say… Trump makes you feel hopeless. Can’t let that happen, Vic. You are too strong a man and too good a lawyer to let that happen. Channel your Father, Harold Norris Esquire… great writer, great poet, great Law School teacher, great humanitarian and always the “protector of “Human Rights.” […]
JUDICIAL BIAS DEFEATING JUSTICE The question begged ??? Isn’t most of what passes as truth in our lives (and our reality and our beliefs)… just the “subjective” interpretation of what well-intentioned people think they saw, think they heard, think they know or think they believe ??? See What is Truth and Where Do You […]
PAM BONDI ASSAULT ON AMERICA… DESTROYING OUR DEMOCRACY WORD BY WORD CONCEPT BY CONCEPT STONE BY STONE & PILLAR BY PILLAR Trump and sycophants are relentless in their destruction of our American democracy. Today, in the beginning of 2006, it is the choice of language that destroys our American Democracy, word by word, concept […]
New Year’s Eve with Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Just when I needed a New Years resolution, you delivered it, Mary Jo. Thanks for digging deep into the annals of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Life & Times” and delivering my 2026 New Year’s Resolution. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in […]
GOOD JOURNALISM 2025 Wow. What a week for the Baldas-Elrick household. The two best articles I have seen in a long, long time were both published in this week’s Detroit Free Press… both Grand Slam Home Runs. Tresa Baldas. You led off with a most emotionally, gripping, front page, David vs Goliath account of […]
Non-Hillbilly Elegy The Broken People of Nothingness Common ground with Hillbilly J.D. Having read excerpts of J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, I found him to be a “pretender” (or, as my Irish Mother would call him, a “phony”). But, there was some common ground. The death of J.D. Vance’s grandmother, Mamaw, is a poignant replay […]
The Sendoff Now, my Father, we bid you adieu as you begin anew. Though done here, it’s your time for rebirth and “slip the surly bonds of this earth” (High Flight). We the living release your soul to look through the porthole of eternity and continue on your eternal journey with dignity and amnesty. […]
