The Thanksgiving MULLINGS was first published in 2002 so this is its 20th anniversary. Destiny is in her 20s. Please take a moment on this Thanksgiving to say a Prayer…

Many years ago, I graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio 45750. I am a member of the Class of 1968. I didn’t graduate in 1968 – that came a few…

The Great Red Wave of 2022 has crept onshore and withdrawn leaving nothing more than questions by Republicans as to what went wrong. One of the things that went wrong,…

We are four days from the long-anticipated 2022 midterm elections. I have no idea what is going to happen and neither does anyone else. The well-respected website 538.com calls the…

Kidneys A heartening number of your enquired as to my health when you didn’t receive your regular Thursday Night/Friday Morning MULLINGS. Here’s the update I spent two months (Mid-January 2021…

On January 23, 2016, private citizen Donald Trump famously said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Political geniuses like…

I am a 75-year-old Jewish man. I haven’t hidden this fact from you over the decades, but neither have I worn my religion on my sleeve nor, as the Bible…

The tip-off for me was, when I went to the BBC.com streaming site and saw that the presenter was wearing a black tie with his black suit. Queen Elizabeth II…

In Act III, Scene 4, William Shakespeare had Hamlet explain to his mother how he will have an enemy be “hoist on his own petard.” That is the enemy, the…

This column, first written, in 2000, has held up through the years. This year, too few teachers, too few bus drivers, but too many guns has added to the emotional…