Recently I’ve been re-reading a few of Thomas Sowell’s social commentaries, and in his 2010 essay The Money of Fools, the words he wrote more than a decade ago still reverberate.  In that piece, Sowell illustrated how certain words and phrases lend themselves to...

Joe Biden received 66% of the Hispanic vote in 2020 – As of this post, he has a 19% approval rating in that demographic while 60% that strongly disapproves of his performance.  So, what does this mean?  Well, for starters, a good argument can be made that Hispanic...

Today I thought I’d do something a bit different and have some fun.  See the list below, it’s a list of things each of us has, i.e., ‘personal needs.’  Personal needs are important in life for our own sanity and in many cases for the sanity of others. For example, if...

You can dunk an Oreo cookie in milk for three (3) seconds without it losing its structural integrity. On average, it takes about 9 hours for a ship to travel through the Panama Canal, as opposed to two weeks if it made the journey around Cape Horn. Each commercial...

Walter Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).  During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as the “Father of television journalism” and even more importantly, "the most trusted man in...

~ If it walks like a duck ~ Fascism has taken on many forms.  From Franco’s Spain to Mussolini’s Italy to Nazi Germany to Saddam’s Bath Party.  While time, place and circumstance differ, each had similar ideological goals, beginning with a centralized government that...

The following statistics come from a recent Gallup survey Age Group     % Identifying as LBGT Born in 1945 or before  1% Boomers – born between 1946-1964   2.6% Gen X – born between 1965-1980    4.2% Millennials – born between 1981-1995   10.5% Gen Z – born between...

I’ve been in a quandary wondering what to blog about for the 4th of July.  I went back though some old Vail Daily commentaries searching for ideas, but nothing resonated, then it occurred to me that my mini writers’ block was due to how I was feeling about what I see...