Depending on which cable channel or other source of news you rely on, you may have a variety of views and understandings of where the presidency of Donald Trump stands vis-à-vis the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.  If your only sources are Fox News (and in particular, its non-news shows: early […]

                Donald Trump has now been the president of the United States for one year.  That accomplishment decided one bet I made in the weeks leading up to his inauguration.  (I won it.)  And while few would claim he has had an error-free year, it is also true that he hasn’t started any new wars […]

                Sacramento is a surprisingly good city for live performances, especially if you are willing to take the short drive to the Mondavi Center (on the campus of U.C. Davis), where a steady diet of musical tastes from jazz to classical symphonic orchestras is available from September to June.  With our own Sacramento Philharmonic, the […]

              Everyone, well, almost everyone, seems to agree that the Russians meddled in our presidential election in 2016.  And, again, almost everyone agrees that, if they did, they were wrong to do so.  On the surface, the issue seems too obvious to justify much debate.  The basic argument is that a sovereign nation should be […]