I hope all my readers had better sense than I and didn’t watch last night’s debate. For an excellent summary go to http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/305771/gop-candidates-try-scare-hell-out-america. People’s fears are legitimate don’t get me wrong, but it’s another thing to manipulate fear and to try to turn it into something else. Not just fear of a terroristic incident but most…
Month: January 2016
In the Still of the Night
In the still of the nightI held youHeld you tight‘Cause I loveLove you soPromise I’ll neverLet you goIn the still of the night — Five Satins I find myself struggling for answers from time to time. I ask people, do research, and spin a lot of wheels and more often than not I come up…
Special Message To the Readers of The Hubbell Pew
Dear Readers: Somehow, it is January again, which means it’s time for my once-in-a-blue-moon pitch for contributions to the Hubbell Pew. The idea is very simple: if you read the blog regularly (or even semi-regularly, or even occasionally), please consider making a small contribution to the operation of the website. In making this pitch, I’m…
How You Are Remembered
I listened the other day to a football coach giving a motivational talk before the last game of the year. He said, “How you perform tonight will be how you are remembered.” I know his intentions were to encourage his team to play they’re very best, and I’m sure the athletes took it that way,…
Nothing
There a silly commercial on TV trying to convince you how easy it is to do one’s tax returns. A Nobel laureate tries to educate a young man that zero means nothing. It got me thinking after it aired about the hundredth time. Sometimes one can feel empty, feel like there is nothing left to…