Last spring my wife and I took a ‘desert trip’ to Palm Springs for a long weekend. The talk poolside was of the upcoming Desert Trip concert; three nights with six rock and roll icons: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones on night one, followed by Neil Young and Paul McCartney on the following night, […]
Notes from 30,000 Feet: The ongoing search for the perfect cooked ribs
The search for the best combination of: method, rub, glazing sauce and mop sauce used to achieve baby back perfection has been an arduous, but enjoyable task. I think I may have found it this past Labor Day weekend with a new twist on a tried and true formula. Over the years I have used […]
Dennis Lund: Preparing for the upcoming election fight; Theft Prevention 101
Politics has never been a game for the lighthearted or thin-skinned. It can be, and always will be a matter of not what one can do, but what one can get away with. Today standards of integrity have been carried to the lowest levels by the Democratic nominee. Hillary, along with her husband, represent one […]
Notes from 30,000 feet: A break from politics and going to the movies
If there is one thing I think we all can agree on this political season it is this: November can’t come soon enough. With that in mind, I took a break from work and politics before flying home this past week and managed to watch an old movie favorite; “Casablanca,” which contains one of the […]
Dennis Lund: For once, Gov. Brown made right call on Manson follower
It’s hard to believe it has been almost 50 years since the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969. Unfortunately we are reminded of these murders on too regular of a basis. They were again in the news recently when Gov. Jerry Brown overruled the parole board’s recommendation to release Leslie Van Houten, one of many Manson […]
Dennis Lund: And they wonder why we are angry?
Human nature tells us that everyone experiences anger, to some degree or level. What needs to be understood are the triggering and venting mechanisms and how those factors play into today’s politics. We are told that the current rise of Donald Trump is the result of the classic “Angry White Male” syndrome. But that is […]
Dennis Lund: A closer look at Hillary’s ‘achievements’
“When I learned that I passed (the bar exam) in Arkansas but failed in D.C., I thought that maybe my test scores were telling me something.” — From “Living History,” by Hillary Clinton IN SPITE OF HER OCCASIONAL DENIALS, it is abundantly evident that Hillary Clinton will be running for the presidency in 2016. Yet […]
Dennis Lund: Let’s call it ‘climate disruption’ — yeah, that’s the ticket!
“The Los Angeles airport’s going to be underwater, so is the San Francisco airport. You’re going to have to move all that, that’s billions, if not tens of billions.” — Jerry Brown, May 13, 2014 AS WE VENTURE DOWN LIFE’S PATH, we must acknowledge that there are those who are preordained to be our political […]
Dennis Lund: Government might has proven Goldwater right
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.” — Barry M. Goldwater MODERN CONSERVATISM HAS MANY FATHERS. Edmund Burke of Ireland may be its originator, but in the last century, certainly, William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater were transformational figures. Goldwater, especially, derided as he […]
Notes from 30,000 Feet: Voter ID, unions and bringing home the gold?
“The real reason the left wants to make sure that individuals without voter ID are allowed to vote is because they are expected to vote for Democrats.” — Phyllis Schlafly THE ABOVE QUOTE BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY COULD BE REVERSED could be reversed, with the charge that Republicans are for voter ID laws only because of […]