Mr. Trump & “Miss Piggy”
A few weeks ago Salman Rushdie asked, “What’s Donald Trump’s kryptonite? I’d really like to know.” It’ll be ironic if the Donald’s Achilles heel proves to be fat-shaming the stunningly gorgeous Alicia Machado by calling the former Miss Universe “Miss Piggy” and “an eating machine.” Ironic because within moments of the end of his first […]
Congratulations Ayumu Sasaki
Congratulations to Ayumu Sasaki Red Bull Rookies Cup winner 2016. It was a great accomplishment and spectacular season. But what impressed me most was the good sportsmanship displayed by you and your follow Rookies Cup racers. Some riders were as young as 13 and yet each and every one was willing to stand for the […]
Trump, The Green Eggs and Ham Candidate
Every Presidential candidate since Richard Nixon has released his or her federal tax return for study and scrutiny. That is, until Donald Trump came along and threw his Make America Great Again hat into the ring. As we heard at the first Presidential debate monday night Mr. Trump would love nothing more then to show […]
Embracing the Irrational
Many people consider Veterans Administration Hospitals to be tragic and unhappy places. However I have nothing but good feeling for the VA hospital in Palo Alto. The veterans administration very generously loaned, free of charge, an entire floor of one of their buildings to the Stanford University School of Medicine for use in research. […]
Dear Mr. Bush
Dear Mr. Bush I read that come November you’ll be voting for Mrs. Clinton. You have my respect, my admiration and my deepest gratitude. I’m proud that you were once my President. Thank You Gordon
Three Questions for Trump Supporters
Donald Trump recently stated that Hillary Clinton is wholly responsible for creating the Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theory that has plagued this nation for the last eight years. As a conciliatory gesture, and as a figurative olive branch to all the Donald Trump supporters who might be reading, I’ll assume-for the sake of this blog-that […]
Philippine Clipper over the Golden Gate
The aircraft in this photo is a Pan American Airways Martin M-130 christened the Philippine Clipper. From the end of 1935 to January 1943 she amassed an impressive 14,628 hours of flight time. To put that in prospective that’s about 2100 flight hours a year or, eight hours a day, five days a week. It’s […]
Dream Vehicle
To the untrained eye the Husky A-1C looks bare bones basic, perhaps nothing more than an updated 1938 J-3 Piper Cub. But appearances can be deceiving. The Husky is my idea of a dream vehicle, the aircraft I’d most like to own. No other airplane can take you to so many different places and […]