March 20, 2015 With considerable fanfare, the name of the new minor league baseball time that has migrated from New Britain to Harford has been announced. After multiple entries, 35,000 people voted on line and decided to call the team the Hartford Yard Goats. At first, I was disappointed that my name, […]
Exploiting Mother Teresa is Bad Manners
March 6, 2015 An art exhibit at a public library In Trumbull, a Connecticut town, featured a painting depicting Mother Teresa and members of her religious order, The Missionaries of Charity, marching in unity with icons of the feminist movement and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. A Catholic organization, The Knights of Columbus, […]
A Penny for Your Parthenon
February 14, 2015 Buried on the back pages of the business sections of leading newspapers is a high stakes poker game that will soon migrate to the front page – an attempt by the newly-elected Greek government to renegotiate the terms of its recent bail out. Greece is a member of the European […]