Criticism, Essays, Stories

Criticism, Essays, Stories (CES) addresses issues of today. "Huck Veritas" argues that the Bible is required reading to read and understand Huckleberry Finn. 

"His First Words" is a sketch about the downside of raising a child by one parent in a two parent family.

"The Fourteenth Amendment" relies on the legislative history to present an interpretation advancing the wide powers of Congress (not the Courts) possess to define and enforce debt, equal protection and immigration. 

"Idiom" maintains that John McCain should have chosen Tina Fey as his Vice Presidential candidate.

"The Pace" comments on California, and the short effects of its frenetic activities ending with debilitated human beings.

"Ode" reacts to moral wishes expressed by Senator Graham in 2009: Protection of fetuses and school prayer.

"Religion and Politics" discusses the threats to religion which politics brings to this joint forum.

"The Bill Kill," the writing of a script where the hero and his family survive while a catastrophe kills billions of human beings around the globe. Writing fees are less than a penny a human. Life is cheap.

"Second Amendment" can only be construed as combining two rights: a natural right to bear arms, and a civil liberty allowing citizens to form well-regulated militias.

"Originality" is a statement of an artist's state of mind prior to creating an original work of art.