Many years ago I attended a business seminar that began in a most unusual way.  Instead of beginning the presentation with a witticism or humorous anecdote, the speaker began by asking a simple question—“What’s really important to you?” and then handed out packets of...

The other day I was going thru some old commentaries and came across one where I highlighted a great American social commentator from the 60s-70s—Sydney J. Harris.  Harris was a syndicated columnist for the old Chicago Sun-Times.  He had a unique way with words that...

Have you enjoyed the recent government-imposed stay at home orders?  I sure haven’t; and while extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures, the fact remains our freedoms have been impinged upon.  So the question we should ask ourselves once we move...

Children born out-of-wedlock suffer from a range of emotional and behavioral problems, e.g., poor school performance, poor impulse control, aggression and a diminished sense of right and wrong. So when looking at disparities in education, wealth and health in this...

Perhaps one of the reasons some people push back a bit when they hear the term white privilege is because many on the left have distorted the message described in Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh’s seminal article, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible...

One of the more significant differences between the political left and right can be summed up by the questions each side asks about public policy. For example, when discussing the minimum wage someone on the right is likely to ask, “Does this policy do good?’ while...

Like many out there, I miss the baseball season.  And without real MLB games to watch on TV I am ‘relegated’ to my memories, and today I want to share a true baseball story.  The year was 1986 and I had won an incentive trip to the Mickey Mantle-Whitey Ford Fantasy...

“Past – the school houses – take it slow - let the little – shavers grow - Burma Shave” Most of today’s generation have never even heard of Burma-Shave, but ask anyone who lived from the 1920s to the early 1960s, and you will mostly likely bring up a few memories and...

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour tweeted “Defunding the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic is like pulling the plug on firefighters in the aftermath of 9/11.”  Really?  Perhaps Ms. Amanpour’s liberal ideology got in the way of rational thought. I’m sure...

 I’ve purposely steered clear from political commentary in my Vail Daily column during the COVID-19 crisis because I thought some lighter commentary was in order.  But my blog is a different animal and here are a few random thoughts. During the Kavanaugh hearings Joe...