Fourth of July, 2021
Thoughts on July Fourth, 2021 If you do not have power in a democracy, or in any other structure of cultural gathering, then you damn well better have the potential to get power and to be able to transmit the image of that potential to others around you. On this 4th...
The Crumbling System…
Where is the logic and why is the might, the huge and world-shaking might, of the United States of America so fractured and rendered powerless and little more than useless in emergency situations? Where was the body of investigative forces that should have gone...
The Silent Killers, Editorial, August 15, 2020
The Silent Killers Editorial, August 15, 2020 How many are we going to lose from the silent killers, not trotted out like the COVID mortality results? How many people are going to die because they had serious surgery and nobody came? Nobody could reach them? Nobody...
Editorial, Mean-Spirited
Editorial August 4, 2020 The planet is in flux. It's not just the USA, which is the last place one would have expected hysterical drama to shut down. No, the world is filled with it right now because of the Internet, the penetration of television news and radio talk...
The Social Order, Editorial July 5, 2020
The Social Order, the Social Condition, and the meaning of 'Social' itself. The social definition is simple, whether determined by a dictionary in exotic detail or in seemingly understandable catch-phrases like 'we are all in this together.' Social means to be...
A Celebratory Weekend? – Editorial June 20, 2020
Celebration Let's see, and consider, what is going on right now in the nation on the longest day of the year. Yesterday was Juneteenth, a holiday almost nobody knew about because, somehow, the freeing of the slaves back in 1865 was never publicly appreciated. That day...
Supreme Court Direction and More, Editorial, June 19 , 2020
Dreaming gay dreams...as the United States Supreme Court faces away from the growing progressive wind to run for cover. The very conservative court, able to vote on any issue with a 5-4 majority, begins to see the direction the wind is beginning to blow in and lifts...
John Bolton who? Editorial, June 12, 2020
John Bolton who? This guy, resigning from the White House in September of last year, was going to be a lightning rod of booming revelation, with respect to Trump's wrongdoings. Oh, I forgot, there was the book he was writing. He had to keep silent while getting ready...
It Is All About the Money…
All About the Money It is about the money. Where did it come from? First two trillion, and now three more. The gross revenue from all sources for the country was only 20 trillion. The total taxes collected in 2019 was 3.46 trillion. In 2018 it was 3.22 trillion. Where...
Science and Truth… Editorial, May 18, 2020
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E.O Wilson There is no 'Truth' in Science. There is only a repeat performance of experiences and experiments to confirm that things tested give every appearance...
Friends and Friendship, Editorial by James Strauss
FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDLESS OPINION/EDITORIAL from my Newspaper, The Geneva Shore Report, January 8, 2020 There was once a bit of humor portrayed by two hoboes talking to one another on a park bench. They were having one of those not uncommon hobo conversations about...
Intellect, Editorial from the Geneva Shore Report
OPINION/EDITORIAL INTELLECT First published in the Geneva Shore Report, January 1, 2020: INTELLECT Your definition is as good as anybody else’s definition of that word. What does it really mean to be smart, relative to other humans or even beings alive on this...
Wonderful Fans and The Funding Of This Journey
This article is a THANK YOU to all of my wonderful 'Fans' and an introduction to something new. For the past 4 years, I have been posting my writing as chapters are completed, along with Short Stories and Poems. After the books are completed and published the...
I Did The Thing… Vietnam
I did the thing in a country called Vietnam. I went on from there to have a fairly wild and messy but distinguished career in the CIA. How come, after all that, and publishing my story in books and more, I am expected on such social communication sites like this, to...
The Forest of Lost Reality, an Editorial
Forest of Lost Reality An Editorial from the Geneva Shore Report What has happened to explain this latest emotional iteration of social unrest that has been created by opinions about current circumstances rather than likely reality? I write about ‘likely reality’...
Thoughts About Life after Radio Shack
The Demise of Radio Shack and... Dateline: Lake Geneva June 26, 2019 What did it, and does it, mean that Radio Shack went away? What do you suppose happened there that caused the 'Mister Wizard' store where you could get anything electronic or even mechanical to help...
Editorial: That One Thing
Editorial by James Strauss Dateline December 12th, Geneva Shore Report THAT ONE THING The process of writing has little to do with writing at all. Writing can be dictated, scribbled, typed or put down in calligraphy. It can be done in many languages using all manner...
March To A Different Drummer…
MARCH TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER Dateline: Lake Geneva February 21, 2018 You cannot hear my drummer and I don't always either. My drummer beats two snare drums, one of fiction and one of fact. I cannot tell the difference between the beats and I think the drummer knows...
We are With Child…..
Dateline: Lake Geneva September 27, 2017 Opinion/Editorial WE ARE WITH CHILD One of the most interesting and informative pursuits of being human is to sit down, contemplate, and then attempt to take in the enormity of man's inhumanity to man, from the...
A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE …..
Dateline: Lake Geneva September 6, 2017 Opinion/Editorial A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER HEAVEN It's not a hard time for your country. It's a hard time for a lot of poor people, a lot of underemployed people struggling more with self-identity than income, a lot of lost...
Renewal 2017….
Dateline: Lake Geneva August 30, 2017 Opinion/Editorial RENEWAL The Eve of Destruction was a song written by a man named P.F. Sloan in 1964, and the musician Barry McGuire’s recording of it made it hugely popular in 1964. That was fifty-two years ago. The first stanza...
Will Humility be the path……
Dateline Lake Geneva August 23, 2107 TO INHERIT THE EARTH The world defines humility as a lowering of oneself in relation to others, a state or the act of being humble, a freedom of pride and arrogance, and having a modest opinion or estimate of one’s own worth. It...
Kristallnacht emerging…….Editorial, August 16, 2107
KRISTALLNACHT August 16, 2017 German factions of the Nazi Party worked for years in order to create a way to classify Jews in Germany, and in nearby countries, as something different and less than human. This program to separate, and then denigrate, an entire social...
You are My Sunshine……Editorial
Dateline Aug 2, 2017 Lake Geneva Opinion/Editorial YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE Is there any chance that some kind of good fortune will be showered down upon the United States? Ever since the press, the media, or whatever the monolith of this “news” thing is, took over the...
Is This Land Your Land…….
Dateline: Lake Geneva June 28, 2017 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND This is not an article about choosing the right to die, or anything to do with that issue. No, this article is all about some people hastening other people’s death, without their permission, by deliberately...
Meaning of Life, Editorial
Dateline: Lake Geneva June 21, 2017 Opinion/Editorial THE MEANING OF LIFE A long time ago a television show came on the air discussing life on earth, its meaning, and the billions of beings comprising what has come to be known as this thing called intelligent life. In...Go Fund Me Campaign
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