Have fun browsing my Web essays, novels, short stories, and plays. And feel free to use the Contact form below to send me your comments and suggestions for worthy subjects and new projects. I would be glad to hear from you. To start, let me suggest my latest . . .

Trump Grifts a Billion, A Web Ditty

As ICE roots out the worst of the worst from Minneapolis, looky-looky what’s going on in San Antonio. President Donald Trump’s Qatari gift plane — remember that? No, of course, we don’t.

The Trump Gangster Show, A Web essay

We all know Trump changed roles in 2016 from private businessman to president of the United States. It must be as obvious that he did not change tactics. With his second administration running so true to gangster script, can anyone doubt the validity of the criminal charges brought against him in his interregnum period?

To Swallow the Sea, A Web essay

The ravaging egocentricity of the human species would have been unlikely without the development of another human singularity, the notion of God. That, in itself, presents an ontological impossibility. As a rule, big things don’t fit into little things.

Fascism on Trial, A Web essay

The 2025 film Nuremberg focuses on insight Dr. Douglas M. Kelley acquires serving as prison psychiatrist for the high-ranking Nazi leaders standing trial in Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946. Most lamentably, one highly revealing interview was not included in the script . . .

Trump’s Ballroom Business, A Web essay

As #47, Trump’s style of swift dealmaking gained a real head of steam and required a proper venue to accommodate the heavy traffic. What more appropriate place to host his supplicants and seal his high-level deals than a high-security Donald J. Trump Ballroom. The public wouldn’t mind. He’d see to that.

The Speaker’s Sandwich, A Web essay

Speaker Johnson’s big reward was the ride Trump had promised him in Air Force One down to Mar-a-Lago if he kept the House of Representatives out of session for as long as Trump wanted. And Johnson was doing just that, but his trip got spoiled anyway.

Trump’s Tax Fuss, A Web essay

When framing tax legislation designed to drain the blood of its citizens, policymakers are wise to keep the language complex. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made excellent use of that device. Now nobody seems to know who benefits from Trump’s hefty tax cuts.

Bookwormy Trump, A Web essay

Trump, a 24/7 bribe taker, has burned us out. He’s won. We have to admit it. He’s getting away with it. We don’t even call them bribes anymore. Take, for instance, the hundred-million-dollar bribe he accepted in broad daylight just recently. Didn’t notice? Don’t fuss. No one else did either.

Lament for Israel, A Web essay

No verse of Shakespeare, no song of Roland, no tale of Beowulf, no fruit of ancient fabled poet rich with rhyme and meter is this. Nor of such things herein did they sing, for never was there cause till now for such lament as for this nation who would be God’s.

The Good Life in Haifa, A Web essay

Billionaire Bill Ackman is feeling good about Israel. And Israel is certainly feeling good about Bill. Their mutual admiration was fulsomely expressed during Bills’s recent visit. No red carpet was ever so long.

The Fallout of Charlie Kirk, A Web essay

Certain it is that conservative activist Charlie Kirk is beyond recantation now. Notwithstanding, will the words he so recently spoke surely haunt his family.

Trump’s Forgotten Epstein Phase, A Web essay

Donald Trump remembers only dimly what he did during his Jeffrey Epstein days. And yet the idea of releasing what the country was calling the Epstein files made him deeply uneasy. 

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