Category: March

  • GOVERNOR WALKER’S CLINIQUE DE CASTRATION ET ANNIHILATION

    I do not claim to be an expert on many affairs that afflict the human condition, but I do claim some expertise in the field of labor relations.  I spent nearly 17 years working with grievances and bargaining and all the politics that go with labor relations.  My best guess is that I spent six…

  • A REVISIT TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS

    Sven Lernevall is my long-time friend from Sweden.  From all appearances, Sven speaks the Swedish language with great proficiency. I will have to rely on expert witnesses whom I trust to testify to Sven’s use of the Swedish language.  Beyond that, Sven and his wife Ella speak an elegant brand of the English language.  On…

  • APHASIA AND ARTHRITIS

    In the last few months here in the great luscious garden state of New Jersey, we find that teachers are retiring in droves or perhaps flocks.  They are retiring at this time because they sense that shortly their benefits may be curtailed or removed through the generosity of the new governor, Chris Christie.  This is…

  • A THOUGHT OR TWO ABOUT TOM SCANDLYN

    Somewhere in this batch of essays, there is one called “Old Age is a Disease.”  That was a tribute to Hana Davis’s mother and to Howard Davis’s mother-in-law.  As I noted at the end of that essay, I never had the opportunity to meet the author of those lines about old age being a disease. …