The Amazons

“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” — Plato By Dr. Jim Ferguson   The disadvantage of writing a weekly column is that it’s difficult to be contemporaneous. Actually, I like being...

Buyer’s Remorse

  To be, or not to be, that is the question. — William Shakespeare By Dr. Jim Ferguson We do not have Hamlet’s conundrum of a life or death struggle. Or maybe we do, if you believe the pronouncements of iPOTUS and his handlers. The question for Americans is to...

Patches of green

“I hate writing, I love having written.” -Dorothy Parker “Most of the time I enjoy writing, but I love having written.” -Jim Ferguson By Dr. Jim Ferguson Each week I sit down and write about what’s on my mind. Now that I am retired this usually occurs on a Wednesday...

The Shill

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke By Dr. Jim Ferguson Some years ago, a friend told me that she once worked for a casino as a shill. I was clueless, so I went to the dictionary. Webster defines a shill as...

Reminisces

“Let’s start at the beginning, a very good place to start…”  —Maria from the Sound of Music By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m a big fan of old movies, especially musicals. But then I’ve listened to Beethoven’s fifth and ninth symphonies at least 100 times with the same...

Ignominious

By Dr. Jim Ferguson   There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. — Brutus from William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar”   In 42 BC,...