— Poetic & Musical Creativity at its best! — A Short Story During my mid-to-late teens I was a runaway from home and I hitchhiked all over New England writing poetry. So young and creative, I should have become a musician. But my guitar teacher told me to stick to Little Brown Jug and Yankee Doodle when I wanted and knew I…

—News From The Quiet Zone: Western Media Reports: “Shhhh!” — Read and observe how US oligarchs are bent on making a killing from a huge oil discovery in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Learn also how water resources and recreational activities are manipulated for the benefit of Israelis, not the Syrians or Palestinians. The Golan Heights of Syria has remained…

— Or is Western Propaganda Best In The World? — Frankly, America’s GOPwingers, backed by neocons, have always demonstrated the worst kind of ugly politics. But they’ve consistently won elections ever since John F. Kennedy was shot. Mixed into the long years of Nixon-Ford and Reagan & the Bushes was Democrat Bill Clinton. But he became a president who, except…

— Why is Prince never named among the so-called “Globalists!” —

— Children raised in the ’50s shared both a dream of opportunity and a nightmare for the future! — Portsmouth, New Hampshire Located at Maine’s border, this is where I was born in October of ’49. I was raised there for the first five years of my life. My grandfather was in charge of the post office. …

— Social Media Algorithms Need a Solid Human Back-Up! — I’ve been polite on the Internet since AOL 1.5 and Netscape 2.0. I’m a veteran of AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Metacrawler and Yahoo search engines. Under the moniker PartyTime, I created and hosted the Internet’s first large substantive anti-war debate on Silicon Investor.com, a stock investment forum; and I once…

— It’s not a matter of Living Free or Die; it’s more a matter of Living Together or Die! — On Labor Day weekend I, born in New Hampshire, got called a communist on Facebook. Below is my response: Actually, I say right on to the inventors, investors and distributors of the hula hoop, the pet rock and the Rubik Cube, etc. …

— A man with a knack for music and a smile that wouldn’t quit, he was automatic friend to every human he ever met! — This is aimed at my longtime great fun friend TJ Wheeler, ace musician and top-notch bluesman. This story tells not only how The Blues Bank Collective, created by TJ, got its name, but it’s also about the amazing bluesman, Robert “BJ” Johnson (1905–1986).