UberThoughts USA

This is one heck of an election year, and I don't have to tell you why.  As I write this, it is the early morning of October 21, 2020, a...

The previous 1,051 columns since 2014 were almost invariably for the reader to enjoy, or to contemplate, or just laugh, not infrequently at ...

As I write this, I am 69 years old, which is not a surprise to regular readers of the column, but relevant for this piece. It is relevant b...

Within the past couple three weeks, something most of us thought impossible has had its first steps, and not only do those steps seem produc...

I remember 2016 as if it were only four years ago even though it was ... well, yeah, it actually was four years ago.  But Lordy, have things...

Houston, we have a problem.  And it's huuuuuge. If you're a regular reader, you know that I'm a big fan of asking candidates w...

A week or so ago, I was finishing up a book that I had quoted briefly in a fairly early post on this site.  The book is "Try and Stop M...

I was in my car today when I heard that the House and Senate had each proposed its own version of a form of legislation to address police op...

OK, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world, which makes it the perfect time to write about something that is totally irrelevant an...

I got a tweeted reply today to something I had written, in regard to the status of breweries in North and South Carolina relative to Wuhan v...

Yes, this is about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, and I sure as heck don't like having to write it and to be hearing about the case. ...

It has been a while since the last column here, so I thought it might be a good idea to share that yours truly is still alive and well, hole...

It is certainly arguable that the greatest baseball game in recorded history took place October 21, 1975, in Fenway Park, that geriatric gre...

I have not been on a college campus for quite some time now, not as a visitor and not as a student, but we sure hear a lot about college stu...

February, which ends this weekend, is a peculiar month. It is, as you are well aware, the shortest month, even in leap years like this one...