Only in New Mexico

 It has been three and a half years since my last post.  I am thinking of starting to post again because I don't want to use FB any more...

I wish trump would just drop dead. I don't worry about Pence taking over.  We could just get some guy to dress up as Jesus and have t...

My breakfast mate this morning agreed that after investing so many years in the TV drama "House of Cards", that we were no longer...

People being offended by the First Amendment being used at the White House Correspondent' Dinner.  Get over it. trump's EPA...

Local TV news has morphed into a police blotter. They run at least half a dozen security cam or lapel cam videos a day. (All photographers ...

Senator Udall--no statement on assault weapons ban, but he always wears a cowboy hat. Congressman Ben Ray Lujan--no statement on assault w...

There are some Democrats who are upset that Gene Veneklassen, the perfect fit for being elected Land Commissioner, was once a republican.  ...

I feel so relieved that Susana Martinez just made her last speech to the Legislature.  Really, of all the Governors I have worked for or ob...

I got into a senseless argument with right-wingers on the deportation of that 40 year old father of three kids who had been in America sinc...

Remember when?  It used to be that other countries would respect the United States.  A time when a sitting President didn't need to cal...

Bureau of Land Management moving out of DC?  As a former Director of the BLM, this only makes sense if the BLM is regionalized, much like o...

We had a great stop in Havana for a couple of days.  One can really see the effects of the Embargo and the fall of the Soviet Union here...

We are off to Havana, Cuba, and a few other stops.  Our house sitter has invested in Claymore mines so we will still have cars in the garag...

I have just come out of the Wilderness of the worse cold/flu virus I have dealt with in years.  Most of our friends have been dealing with ...

Well, why do I feel as if this Pence visit to Afghanistan really is meaningless? This Christian Fundamentalist understands little of the is...

Think of it this way.  An old white GOP member of Congress decides he needs a new $5 million dollar house.  He buys it with a huge mortgage...

If you think things are falling apart in government now, just wait.  Case in point.  A  train derailment on a new route kills and injures p...

It never fails.  Republican officer holders leave deficits for incoming Democratic office holders.  Mayor Berry with the help of the city c...