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Robert F. Kennedy For Our Time
I started writing monthly for the Presidio Sentinel in March of 2005. That was 78-months and more than a 125,000 words ago. I am not qualified to judge how my “body of work” stands, but I should guess...
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Davy Jones last San Diego Interview
by Kevin Fulton Davy Jones performed at The Hershey Theatre in June with Monkees Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz The group, without fourth Monkee Michael Nesmith, reunited to mark the 45th anniversary of...
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Timken Museum of Art Hosts Series of Small Displays of Art
Object Lessons: Francisco de Goya’s Self Portrait with Dr. Arriet The second in the series of major loans to the Timken Museum of Art comes from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Francisco de Goya’s...
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Eclipse
Image provided by Andrew Bradshaw Andrew Bradshaw is a photographer who captured the eclipse that recently occurred. Bradshaw, who has a Bachelors in physics and is currently at UC Davis working...
View ArticleWhich America?
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms; it will be because we destroyed ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln Mitt Romney has repeatedly said the presidential...
View ArticleAA – Romney, Ryan & Rand – III
I am a confessing Christian but understand people have a right to their own faith beliefs – or the absence thereof. My Christian convictions run deep but I do not proselytize. I am a welcoming person...
View ArticleThe Things That Seem & Those That Are
by George Mitrovich For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances As though they were reality, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. • Nicolo...
View ArticleBob Filner & The Politics of Change
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Nicolo Machiavelli The...
View ArticleOf Politics & Principles
If we know a nation is capable of enduring continuous discussion, we know that it is capable of practicing with equanimity continuous tolerance. • Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics (1872) You will...
View ArticleManners & The New York Times
When 325 U.S. and Canadian editors and publishers were asked by Time to name the world’s greatest newspaper, 79 percent named The New York Times. But that question was asked so long ago the next U.S....
View ArticleThe Devil & Alan Greenspan
One afternoon late I stopped off at the Adams Avenue Book Store in Normal Heights. I needed to say hello to my friends, Betsy Brown and Michael Smythe. I normally drop by several times a month, but...
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Pacific Hospitality Group Purchases Historic Warner Springs Ranch
The existing 250 casita units and main lodge will be upgraded and renovated.San Diego-based Firm to Invest $50 million in Landmark Property Poised to rejuvenate a longtime San Diego County destination,...
View ArticleMoral Outrage & Herblock
There’s never an absence of things to write about and I have never experienced “writer’s block,” despite prayers by others to that end, but sometimes real life interrupts and one must focus on matters...
View ArticleIs Our Drinking Water Safe?
Almost two years ago, against the wishes of the majority of San Diegans, our tap water began being treated with hydrofluosilicic acid (artificial fluoride), not calcium fluoride. What I have learned...
View ArticleIs That All There Is?
Jim Wallis, America’s leading prophetic voice on social justice, came to The City Club of San Diego recently to speak about his new book, “On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t...
View ArticleMusings: San Diego & Syria
Personal Note: The two issues that follow are not connected, for one is parochial and the other paramount, but in the mercurial nature of my mind these musings arose when I sat down to compose July’s...
View ArticleOf Politics & Poetry
In writing against an early deadline and lacking the gift of prophecy I do not know whether Bob Filner is still mayor, but if he is every day he remains in office compounds the city’s untenable...
View ArticleNovember Notes: Bob Filner & Baseball
When the news hit that former mayor Bob Filner had pleaded guilty to a series of false imprisonment and battery charges involving three women, it was a stunner. Of course the plea led the U-T San...
View Article“Fumble?” Did You Say, “Fumble,” Mr. President?
The roll out of President Obama’s health care act was a major screw-up and when the president described it at a press conference as a “fumble,” he insulted our intelligence. There are people who hate...
View ArticleA Poorly Executed Effort for Health Care insurance
Over the past several months I’ve heard from numerous individuals and business owners about their current and future health insurance. A lot of people initially expressed support for the concept of...
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