All Hail, Geezer! It has always been the old men who send the young off to war. They pump them full of hatred for an unfamiliar enemy, fuel their addiction to a love of country that blinds them to reality,…

Russia claims Volodymyr Zelensky is not the legitimate elected President of Ukraine. The United States claims Nicolas Maduro is not the legitimate elected President of Venezuela. (They had a practice run in 2020 about claiming election fraud and learned from…

It’s so simple, just ask a four-year-old. The innocence of children, a common theme, is a misnomer. The innocence implies they had some capability to surrender it. They do not until we teach them how. What children are is honest,…

“When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” Yogi Berra (sort of) America faces the most challenging crisis since the Civil War. Our government of checks and balances is now woefully unbalanced, controlled by those with checks…

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?”Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 Once again, we face the changing of the numbers, assigning an artificial appellation to the passage of time. 2026. Two thousand and twenty-six years marking…

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.” James Madison, Letter to William Bradford 1774 One of the most troubling aspects of religion, in particular Evangelical Christianity and Fundamentalist Islam, is their…

“It doesn’t matter what you believe, as long as you’re sincere,” is one of those sayings that, on its face, seems harmless but carries a hidden danger, as many recent incidents have demonstrated. Belief alone, no matter how sincere, can…

I published a tongue-in-cheek piece about the December 25th celebration of the birthday of a great human with an enormous impact on society (Sir Isaac Newton) and was met by the exact response I expected. https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2025/12/24/for-unto-you-is-born-a-savior/ Many were quick to…

On this December 24th, I want to take a moment to consider the impact of the man whose birth we will celebrate tomorrow. I know some argue for a different date, but the specifics of the day are irrelevant, it…

Joe and Hope searched the sky for signs of the sleigh. “Shouldn’t they be back by now?” Hope said. “They’ve been gone a long time.” “I don’t know,” Joe said. “Maybe it’s just taking longer than he thought it would.”…