The Decider (Book) - 6/23/2022 9:54:38 AM
I just happened on your book. Glad I did. I miss your articles. I'm writing an article on guns, hoping that it will promote the absurdity of household gun ownership in favor of security measures like alarms and videos. I also written a satirical poem, My Gun, that I will post tomorrow.
The Knights Templar were the model for militias raising arms for causes. So, it is appropriate that you start with them and all of the conspiracy theories that stem from them to incorporate in your novel. Along with what reads like, a realistic portrayal of Adolf Hitler's death. Still, there are many that believe he escaped Berlin and ended up somewhere in South America.
Just last night, I watched the latest Expedition Unknown where Josh Gates, the amazing ubiquitous explorer, went to a church in of all places, Eastern Poland, close to the German border where there stands a church dating from the 1200s. The church is of the style of the Templars and contains Templar artifacts. A very unlikely place, but showing the span of Templar influence in Europe at the time. Perhaps one of the places that the French Templars fled to under King Philip's reign of terror.
Good luck with your novel, I know that it will be very factually based and therefore, great reading. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a book reader, just a book writer. Or I would read it and give you a review wherever it is sold. About the best I can do is read a chapter at a time, and then write a review.
Ron
The Castlereagh Connection (Book) - 7/4/2003 8:57:34 AM
Great book! Great character development! A must read.
Pythagorean Theorem Tossed? (Short Story) - 1/12/2025 10:20:11 AM
It's a lovely story of misguided thinking. Alabama is an Indian name meaning "Up on blocks."
The only good thing to come out of Alabama is I-20.
Does the Sodium Game disprove the Existence of God? (Short Story) - 1/5/2025 9:10:04 PM
I like your Sodium Game, and you were only having fun, but your conclusion does not follow from your premises. If God exists, (he,she,it, they) could have other reasons for not getting involved in every dispute we Earthlings manage to get ourselves into. Enjoyed!
Pythagorean Theorem Tossed? (Short Story) - 9/17/2022 1:06:38 PM
I recall they hated Neil Young first for something he wrote or said. It's clearly in Leonard Skynyrd's (a very intelligent name) famous song, Sweet Home, Alabama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxWmSVv-cY
I thought the illuminati disappear back in the 1980s with the Triumvirate. But I guess old rumors never die, they just become part of church dogma.
Thanks for the chuckle…
Ron
Does Trump Have Gynecomastia? (Short Story) - 7/7/2021 2:45:55 PM
I'm sorry, but I found your story extremely funny. Hysterical!
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall (Short Story) - 2/22/2021 12:49:39 PM
Aside from a typo "You will all behave to we'll pull over" which should be "You will all behave or" ---it was a funny story to read. I feel typos are the bane of our existence! I curse every time I find one in my writing. Feel free to delete my comment after correction.
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall (Short Story) - 2/9/2021 9:54:15 AM
That was funny. And ironic since you brought wine to a clearly beer event. ;-)
I do recall bus trips singing 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. It seemed like it got old pretty fast after about 10 bottles when no one wanted to sing it anymore. But for middle school kids who only got a sip of their parents beer like I did when I was about five or six and decided I didn't like it, they could go on for nearly forever with all that energy pent up in a moving bus.
Ron
The !twelve Days of Sticky Buns (Short Story) - 12/26/2020 8:58:45 AM
I'm sure you found a way to manage to get rid of them, but I will not suggest any because everyone has their own way of charity. A woman I know was coming yesterday to bring me a gift. She didn't, but she's often late and that's okay. I know this woman has three homes for the assisted living. She probably gets many gifts from family members whose relative she is caring for cannot use or eat. So I assume she is dumping excess gifts on me like I've always been the target of hand-me-downs, regifting, etc.
And everyone seems to want to supersize everything, both for more profit and to satisfy growing appetites for diabetes, coronavirus, and other wonderful ways to spend retirement with all of it spent.
Finally, you reminded me of how my mother was able to provide us with sugary breakfasts of great variety on her wood stove without having to go out to the bakery to get her fabulous sticky buns, coffeecake, glazed and doughy doughnuts, cakes and cookies galore recipes just restored on on my website after the Grinch had stolen them.
Double finally, at this time of the year I want to congratulate you on your many fine, well thought out and sane articles drawn from the science, and not the myth, of political science.
Ron
Does the Sodium Game disprove the Existence of God? (Short Story) - 11/30/2019 12:08:30 PM
I'm still puzzled by your conclusion in this article on the last line. But I will go along with it for now.
I was raised on a German salt diet. I recall that my grandfather had diabetes, although he was skinny and muscular, by his late sixties. He was raised on salt pork and other self preserved items like pickles. My mother also cooked with a lot of salt until she started combating high blood pressure leading to diabetes. My parents spent their winters in McAllen. She found out that the water there was so salty from irrigation that she could not drink it or cook with it.
When I was 25 and a Masters degree student at Stanford, I joined an 18-year-old freshman wrestler in his efficiency apartment to save money for us both, although he was from a very rich family. He really liked my fried chicken until one day, he saw me generously salting it. He flew into a rage and showed me a book that was written about 1920 by a doctor concerned about salt. I had never heard of salt be a demon before and pretty much dismissed his histrionics. Throughout my life, cooking for myself, I didn't overindulge using salt but do remember salting my popcorn every night. I'm still healthy at my age and salt is not a problem for me.
I'm sure your game is torture for both the staff and the participants in your self-help group. Good luck with it.
Ron
Does Trump Have Gynecomastia? (Short Story) - 1/10/2018 7:14:41 PM
You raise a valid point. Trump may have gynecomastia which is a fairly common side effect of the hair-loss medication, Propecia, if taken over a long period of time.
Does Trump Have Gynecomastia? (Short Story) - 5/11/2017 7:15:06 AM
Maybe then, Trump and Putin can get together for a breast and chest Twitter exposure. I can't wait. I can see where Sal Manila may get under Trump's skin. Most everybody does.
I prefer turkey breast. They are much larger without having to have them enhanced.
Funny stuff. Enjoyed. Perhaps I will see it enacted on SNL.
Ron
A Crying Woman (Short Story) - 4/19/2017 1:19:50 AM
I've been to many protests over the years. Often they were ineffective on the political level, but they always worked on the personal and emotional level because people came together and realized they were not alone and that they had support from other types of communities as well. The power of the protest comes from the display of resistance. It tells the politician to be careful, to back off. It tells the rest of us there is hope. I was so happy to see the protests against Donald Trumps executive orders. With voting rights being taken away, protests will grow in number and strength.
A Crying Woman (Short Story) - 3/1/2017 7:09:50 AM
Keep up the good work. That woman made your work worthwhile.
I haven't protested as much as I should. But, when the Texas budget back in 2004 was being cut and the meager benefits of the disabled were threatened, I was asked to participate because my representative, a friend, was the powerful head of the budget committee. One Saturday we descended upon his office in my neighborhood in wheelchairs, walkers and with guides and caregivers, en masse, chanting, "Our homes, not nursing homes." It was very emotional and uplifting. No cuts were made in these vital, but very limited monies for the poor.
Did you see Donald Trump singling out the wife of the recent SEAL who died in the Yemen raid in his address last night? She sure was emotional. I'm not sure she was happy or sad with her tears. As with the disabled young woman, I felt a bit uneasy about his using of these people to promote his agenda. When the President of the United States calls, most people, out of respect, come. My Congressman, Al Green, out of disrespect for Trump's actions that are contrary to what he said last night, dismissed himself from the proceedings as his own form of protest.
Ron
Sticking it to the Man (Short Story) - 11/9/2011 5:37:58 AM
What man is it exactly that you are obsessed with 'sticking it to'?
Is his behavior more fraudulent than yours?
And, why is this piece categorized as humor?
No Broccoli Tonight!!! (Short Story) - 3/30/2009 12:26:53 PM
The most clever write I've read in a long, long time. The poor man. I'd send a dollar but spent my last one on string beans for tonight's dinner. Keep up the good work Mel.
The Gilded Cage (Short Story) - 1/16/2006 8:38:57 AM
good story, well done! :)
Celts and Kings Chapter Three (Short Story) - 5/22/2004 9:30:56 AM
Good job, Mel. You got my attention. I want to read what happens next.
An Interesting experience AtThe Voting Booth (Article) - 2/22/2026 11:33:30 PM
As Spike Jones might say, "Wen der Führer says, we are a big disgrace, "Zieg Heil, Zieg Heil, right in der Führer's face!"
An Interesting experience AtThe Voting Booth (Article) - 11/7/2025 12:43:43 PM
I'm in New Jersey and we voted a woman Democrat for Governor. Over the past few weeks, when I asked people why they support Trump, they say they heard one catch-phrase that appealed to them then made a decision! Sometimes that phrase was very hateful. With food programs stalled and airport workers calling off sick because they don't like working for free, many Trump voters tell me they are having buyers remorse!
How I am spending No Kings Day (Article) - 10/20/2025 2:16:17 PM
Thanks for sharing this. It was a dilema for me as well. I've spent years going to protests against violations to human rights. However, at age 74 I did not feel up to doing the No Kings day protests. When you cannot attend rallies, keep in mind, these organizations need funding as well. They always appreciate it when you send a donation. As writers we can do a lot to keep people updated on the arguments and issues through articles we write and through emails and social media. Keep up the good work!
When Trump Leaves (Article) - 9/25/2025 10:08:57 AM
Thanks for posting your article. I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner! It is so important for people to understand that Trump and Company are trying to take away our rights! These rights are what made the United States of America a unique country, so different from other nations that were ruled by kings or dictators. For Trump to be King is a major step backwards and will be destructive to all of us! The upcoming elections will show if we've learned a lesson or are going down the gutter as a nation. Please folks, vote to protect your rights by not voting for Trump and his goons!
Are The Oligarchs to blame? (Article) - 5/29/2025 2:47:01 PM
Lately, Oligarchs have started to go after the premier educational institution in the nation, Harvard. Bound to destroy basic research and fact finding the hard way.
They also want to spend the money on creating more skilled workers in the manufacturing field to make more stuff so that the Oligarchs can continue to grow their fortunes and society progress can slow down to what it was in the past.
I haven't been writing articles lately but I could've written this one.
Ron
Are The Oligarchs to blame? (Article) - 1/5/2025 8:53:41 PM
I could not have stated it better, and this subject is right down my alley.
Thanks for including critical thinking. Ed
Are The Oligarchs to blame? (Article) - 1/2/2025 12:40:01 PM
I totally agree with you! We need to defend education, especially in civics, history, economics and science! The Oligarchs are trying to push us back into the feudal ages where landless peasants worked the fields and handed most of the crops over to the kings. I believe that in the U.S. and in other advanced nations, we will not tolerate being pushed into a much lower, poorer lifestyle. This means we will have to join the fight for a better world, not just for ourselves but for all people of this earth. We writers must do whatever we can to help in the education process! Keep up the good work. We all need to join in the effort. A better world is possible!
How to get rid of negative people in your life (Article) - 11/20/2024 1:35:09 PM
I was curious about your letter. Yes, it's the type of letter I'd like to send to a few of my acquaintances. But I'm not going to do it. I'm going to be the nice person I am and show them what intelligence, a sense of community responsibility and caring looks like. 45 supporters at heart are racist, sexist, hostile, ignorant folks. They need to see a better example. The America that they envision will not happen because we are all living in a new world, not the world of the past, which made big mistakes. That big tax cut they hope to get from 45 is not likely to happen, but a recession and ecconomic strife is most likely. I'll keep tuning in to 45 supporters just to keep an eye on them and challenge them in a meaningful way.
Are Most Americans Richer Than Trump? (Article) - 4/28/2024 4:08:54 PM
I've wondered why Christians would bow to Trump. He's the worst sinner, yet they forgive him and--follow him? I've heard that some politicians threatened to tax the churches. This would run many small evangelical churches "out of business." The fear of being taxed scares them into supporting the MAGAs, who like mobsters, offer "protection." My own income taxes dropped to $2000 a year during the Trump years. The way I look at it, I'm rich enough to pay taxes and prefer it to a crazy dictator who wants to destroy democracy.
Liars and Cheats (Article) - 3/28/2024 12:14:32 PM
I love that last line.
Yes, what are the right wing parents who have all of those children regardless of their circumstance of birth, telling their children what our Make America Great Again former president is like?
Everyone seems to admire Donald Trump's family from their photo ops, but we rarely see anything of them other than his elder sons and daughters. Are they isolated from the truth, or are they part of the façade? Will they be like RFK's son, diametrically opposite? Only time will tell.
In the meantime, parents need to keep a close watch on their children so they are not influenced too much by the influencers on the Internet who would drag them into cults and and very bad behavior.
The cult of Trump has to be seen as it really is, not as some shining light in the disarray of what is supposed to be the greatest country in the world, but no longer is.
Ron
A Prophecy (Article) - 3/2/2024 12:23:04 PM
Thank you for the optimism. I agree with you. He has too many slings and arrows to survive… Particularly his aging when all of his past actions come back to haunt him like these lawsuits with solid evidence.
What bothers me is why, during these rallies where a small number of Republican fanatics turn out and praise him, and then, are the only ones in their party who vote him through so far without a challenge except from Haley who they seem to be ignoring? If he has done anything, he has destroyed the Republican Party. Don't they know it? Get off the merry-go-round?
After the wealth connected Congress persons lose their elections or retire, it's the judges who will be gone. For many years I was sick to see that the only people running for most of the many judge seats here in Texas were Republican with no opposition. That is changing, thanks to trump and honest reporting from the grassroots like you of what is really going on from the draconian and plans of the wealthy far right of the Republican Party who have been using him as their sham showman for so long.
Ron
Are Most Americans Richer Than Trump? (Article) - 2/26/2024 1:08:03 PM
Yet trump continues to defy all of the lawsuits and indictments against him as though he is above the law. I guess, somehow, if he is elected president again, will pardon himself of all wrongdoing and continue to claim that he is doing it for the good of all his most loyal MAGA followers.
He is sinking into the swamp of his own lies while the Republican Party is going broke in more ways than one by supporting him and not any other candidates. I still don't understand why so many still worship him like he was as clean and white as sliced bread.
Ron
Hitting Below The Belt (Article) - 2/1/2024 5:12:11 PM
The ‘sores’ are gone. Looking at the photo, they appear to have been red pen marks probably from signing autographs. You have seen the almost daily videos of the guy who has his finger on the nuclear trigger showing obvious dementia, right? Unbelievable!
Get A Job! (Article) - 1/26/2024 3:00:15 PM
We all need work. In work we can be fulfilled. Even if the work is not suitable for someone's job. Jobs are for those who wish to use the ones they hire as wage slaves or promoters.
That's why we have to do the dreaded thing for conservatives, share the wealth that is substantial and can bring everyone out of poverty by merely changing the tax laws in the United States.
And, the United States should set the example for how to do it.
I'm with you when it comes to hypocrisy..
Ron
Hitting Below The Belt (Article) - 1/21/2024 12:20:05 PM
I haven't seen any articles about Trump's health, but when we had a pandemic rolling along, some hoped that might take him down "a notch." I think it's going to be up to the American voters to put a good brave leader in office to help solve our problems. I'm just not sure who that would be.....sadly.
Hitting Below The Belt (Article) - 1/20/2024 1:16:46 PM
Very creative. From what I've been seeing, Trump has been using the victim card. It seems like judges from all around the country are bullying him. He has to go before them and challenge them with their stupid rules restricting his freedom of speech. Hoping that his followers will see that they can stand up to bullies that the liberal left is throwing at him. Especially those judges that he appointed to the bench… His loyal people.
Is the "heartbreak of psoriasis" infectious? Just asking.
Ron
I Am An American (Article) - 12/27/2023 12:10:54 PM
I'm with you all the way. I have resisted authority all my life except for one example. When I was called to the Order of the Arrow in Boy Scouts, I succumbed to following the rituals set forth by the leaders, including fasting and sleeping in the wilderness overnight without anything but a blanket. Both were totally enjoyed by me.
Like you, I've always been different when it comes to joining causes from authoritative sources. Many times the way I encountered authoritarian people was to provide them with ways to do their job better that didn't require them browbeating others.
But I am concerned, why so many rebelled against measures required for maintaining our health during a deadly pandemic, and then, the same people bowing down to Trump, largely because he was autocratic and loved people who were loyal to a fault. Why aren't more people standing up to the evil authority of men over women by banning abortion?
I love your example about Solomon and David. If you want to become a hypocrite, the easiest way is to follow some rigid, authoritarian rituals contrived by man to control those of weak mind and spirit.
Ron
The Last Christmas? (Article) - 12/11/2023 2:26:00 PM
I never believed in Santa. But my parents were too poor to do something like your parents and make a lavish trip to Wanamaker's by train to show you the "real Santa." My remembrance of that time was when my twin brother and I were six and we went to the small town City Hall, a small wooden building with an enclosed front porch. We lined up with other kids and there was a man dressed in a red and white suit that gave us candy. By seven, I knew that the real Santa was my parents who made sure that something was under the tree for us Christmas morning.
Lilith seems to equate Christmas with money to buy things to celebrate it. I never spent money on Christmas trimmings or trappings. Only on useful presents for those I loved or needed my help. There was always plenty of good food and good cheer.
In recent years going to an assisted living place and singing my only remembered first choruses of Christmas carols for the elder ladies and gentlemen who seem to appreciate it.
To me, who is president makes little difference. But I'm with you when it comes to Donald Trump who wants to be king again like he was. Not realizing what harm he was doing while he had Christmas to himself all year long. The greatest Scrooge of all.
Ron
A warning to those Christians who plan to vote for Trump (Article) - 12/6/2023 3:23:07 PM
Trump was out of office 2 years, announced his run and then suddenly 4 indictments. They are trying to keep him off the ballot in several states. The FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop as Trump was being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and said nothing. They are too busy working with big tech and social media squelching conservatives and SWATing pro life people. A man has been sentenced to 8 years for a meme telling Hiliary voters to text their vote, while a meme telling Trump supporters to text their vote saw no action. Now Biden wants to stop paying for school lunch for any school not following the Trans agenda. The democratic J6 committee destroyed their records (illegal). Now, they’ve tried to assassinate him. We are already in a tyranny my friend. BTW, the Reformation was the start of the Great Apostasy, dividing and diluting Christianity to the current impotent state.
A Xmas Letter (Article) - 12/4/2023 1:03:51 PM
This has to be fake. But it's entertaining. It reads like something an old Chevy Chase family movie would be like.
Reminds me of my annual letter. I left off the word Xmas a long time ago. But I'm beginning to think it's a waste of time what with social media keeping up with people daily whether they want to keep up or not.
But I still have a cousin who doesn't seem to have a computer or be on the Internet and handwrites me a letter every year that covers one page and a little bit on the back of standard writing paper that I haven't seen in years, otherwise. I feel obligated to answer through snail mail as well.
Ron
Have You Ever Been Falsely Accused? (Article) - 11/26/2023 9:11:23 AM
Thank you for the warning. I agree totally with you. If Trump wins United States will lose. His wrath for being indicted and not believed will spread widely creating many witchhunts without any evidence or truth. Democracy is at stake.
When I was young, like you, I was accused of many mistakes, but a great learning process. Actually, when I think of any incident where I was accused, I was actually guilty. And I was always willing to make amends. Finally, when I broke my cousin's gift bow, simply by pulling it back normally, once to test it without an arrow, my father commanded. "Ron, don't you ever try anyone else's things again, you always break them." True.
But the worst false accusation was when the man who hired me to be his special assistant, doing all kinds of special work and some mundane data keeping and reporting to the state, a vice president of administration, beleaguered by demands all around, not knowing what to do with contracted labor from an engineering firm they hired to do project work, moved the problem to me. The woman he sent me was very self-centered and not liked by anyone, primarily why she was transferred to me. She helped me out a bit, but was embroiled in her own personal problems and at odds with her employer who had been her friend and opponent since high school, who had hired all her employees only half time to avoid paying benefits. (Very complicated)
Anyway, just before Christmas she stopped working, telling me she had pneumonia. Instead, she came before the university president, bragging about her association with me and the college coordinating board wanting to have a contract like her friend, her boss. The president immediately called my boss, and told him what had transpired from this crazy woman. The vice president appeared in my office doorway scowling and said, "Ron, what I have been doing with the coordinating board?"
I told him, "Sending them the required data on buildings and grounds, as required." At a Christmas party, the president came up to me, and said, "We need to talk." But we never had that talk. Unfortunately, the president was caught at a railroad crossing, when he came back to his car to retrieve his briefcase, was crushed between a telephone box and the door of his car.
My boss, the vice president, never trusted me after that. But after he was fired for misuse of funds and retreated to become a teaching associate dean, he called on me often to help teach classes while he was away on research projects. One day, he came back from Nigeria, had a massive aneurysm while picking up his luggage at the airport and died at 57. I don't think he ever understood that I never did anything wrong and tried to do anything with the coordinating board other than I was required. My career there suffered greatly as a result of his mistrust of me that he shared with others.
Ron
A warning to those Christians who plan to vote for Trump (Article) - 11/16/2023 2:06:57 PM
Trump's message paralleled Hitler's message in almost every aspect. And we all know what Hitler did to Christians. Anyone who challenged his atrocities as being unchristian.
Thanks Mel for the warning. If it isn't heeded there may be a new axis of evil formed on the earth with no one to fight it United States did in World War II. There were candidates like Charles Lindbergh who believed in Hitler. Our world would be much different if FDR had not won in 1940.
Ron
An Open Letter To Joe (Article) - 8/24/2023 9:36:32 AM
What a clever way to reveal the hypocrisy of moralists!
I hope that every Joe evangelist out there drinking his morning Joe while catching up with Morning Joe on Fox News can get a read of this.
I have a tip for all of us degenerates who don't follow the rules. Whenever you read or hear someone talking about an issue raising the word moral or its derivative, morality, you can be sure that it's someone hypocritically imposing their idea of what is moral or what is not on everyone else. And, it's really bad when men impose morality on their families in a way that is oppressively terrible to witness.
Let the witch hunts to begin in the new political season! Be sure to drop money in the plate when it is passed around.
Ron
Grandma Smith is coming to Town (Poetry) - 2/28/2020 10:41:18 AM
So true and so two-faced. Declaring that he will "Spend whatever the Congress gives him to fight the Coronavirus."
After my father ran through all of his Medicare benefits while fighting a losing battle with a hospital superbug after a successful heart surgery, my grandmother mother had to declare poverty to get Medicaid for him In 2005. She went into assisted living in about 2012. She refused to stay with my sister, although my sister still had to care for her needs and we had to pay a considerable amount in the last two years to keep her there. Fortunately, she just died and will not have to face what those following her will have to face under Trump's welfare plan for the rich and his budgets.
Grandma is coming home to roost, and neither she nor the kids, will like it.
Ron
Grandma Smith is coming to Town (Poetry) - 2/19/2020 7:27:34 AM
It's a sad state of affairs we have in this country. as I said 4 years ago, the only thing Trump cares about is Trump. Even admitting that Trump has done some good things, the bad far outweighs the good.
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 5/29/2017 5:49:23 AM
Very creative. We certainly do have politicians who believe they are above the law. Maybe it's time for the People to take back their government by running for seats. Great poem to create discussion about what the People need to change around here.
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 7/10/2014 1:32:29 AM
well done
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Updated" contributed (Poetry) - 2/22/2013 7:57:34 AM
His humor was getting worn mighty thin by then (1901) but his pen still had a keen blade's edge. Many thanks for posting it. Never has it seemed more appropriate.
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 10/21/2009 7:29:13 AM
This is nothing less than fantastic! Patrick
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 10/18/2008 3:46:25 PM
What an original write.
I'm going to print this out and hang it on my wall. :)
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 4/27/2007 10:43:54 PM
Wow !!! lovely ..........beautiful.....loved it a lot...gonna share it with my frieeeennnnddddddddddd...............love. neerja.
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 1/23/2007 1:35:45 PM
Love it!!!
Georgie Porgie (Poetry) - 11/3/2006 11:36:41 AM
This should be in the paper....M
Lament for Lost Liberties (Poetry) - 11/3/2006 11:35:37 AM
A unique clever look at the powers that be. Wellsaid.....M
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Updated" contributed (Poetry) - 2/10/2006 11:20:34 AM
I was able to see Hal Holbrook play Mark Twain in "An Evening With Mark Twain" when it played in Phoenix. Twain had an uncanny way of cutting through the BS of many things and his political satire has only been equaled by Will Rogers. Thanks for this, in case we forget...
Elizabeth
Lament for Lost Liberties (Poetry) - 1/27/2006 1:07:08 PM
Not nice, Mel! It hurts to smile and cry at the same time ;-)
