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Editorials and columns

Documentaries demonstrate the current status of emotional intelligence

One of the most popular topics that I work with my clients on is emotional intelligence. According to Oxford Languages, emotional intelligence is the “capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and ...

Trump vs. ABC and Kimmel: When wokism eats its own tail

PARIS — Late-night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is guilty of wrong-speak about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination. What he said doesn't even matter. Nor should it, frankly. At least not inside a free speech zone. But of course, that era is light years in the rearview ...

The left’s triple threat to free speech

Jimmy Kimmel's return to the nation's airwaves is proof of just how unseriously left-wing violence is taken by the liberal media. If Johnny Carson had gone on air after the murder of John F. Kennedy and said, "We hit some new lows this weekend with the Democrat gang trying to characterize ...

Swami is cycling

Every season runs in cycles, fall leaves turning, the first snowfall of winter, budding out of trees in the spring and the green grass of summer. Swami's take is a little different from that of nature. Football is a game that can determine when cycles are in full bloom, ice cold, trying to bud ...

September: When the good — and bad — ends and begins

Summer's lease hath all too short a date, said Shakespeare, and ain't that the truth. The cicadas are still singing, but they won't be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. The garden knows it too. The last batch of bright zinnias displays its stand-up-straight ...

Embracing the coziness of autumn

I woke up, ate breakfast, and then sought the comfort of the living room couch, a familiar feeling of depression settling over me. The ache of arthritis and a dropped cup of tea left me feeling defeated, murmuring to myself, "The old grey mare ain't what she used to be." But the woods were ...