Nov 17, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
The Holiday Season has begun! I wish all The Mesa Paper readers a terrific season. It’s often the time we focus on family, indoor activities, cooking smells, cool mornings, bright days, early dusks, and fiery sunsets. There are other reasons for optimism this year....
Nov 1, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Many writers have repurposed T.S. Elliot’s phrase, “April is the cruelest month.” I won’t be the last when I say American election months are the cruelest season. In deep-blue California, the airwaves have been still relatively wavey except for the nonstop shady...
Sep 16, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
With instant communication and 24-hour news cycles, everything can appear important from media sources. It is – after all – the business of media to promote the news as important. Reporting can slide into expert opinion and speculation where the definitions of “news”...
Sep 4, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Texas is already messed up enough on its own, thank you very much. Hardly a month goes by that we don’t read another story of the Texas mess. It would be a laughingstock among states, but these are not laughing matters. One of their two republican senators rebounded...
Jul 22, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Six Degrees of Separation originated in a 1929 Hungarian short story according to Wikipedia. In almost a century, it has been incorporated into films, games, other literature, music, television, formal mathematics, and psychology. The concept suggests each person is...
Jun 20, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Hashtag ABG. Anything But Guns. That is the repuglican perspective on the epidemic gun violence continuing to sweep the nation. They blame anything. They offer to investigate anything. They throw money at anything. But they do not address guns as the proximate cause...
