Author Archives: Rosemary and Walter Brasch

O say can you see the First Amendment?
By Rosemary and Walter Brasch
Posted on September 12, 2016 by Rosemary and Walter Brasch

Before a football game against the Green Bay Packers two weeks ago, Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers quarterback, refused to stand for the pre-game patriotic ceremony that is wound around the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner.” Continue reading →

Chewbacca and the world of semi-reality news media
By Rosemary and Walter Brasch
Posted on June 28, 2016 by Rosemary and Walter Brasch

A Facebook video of a woman wearing a Chewbacca mask and laughing almost hysterically in her car has drawn more than 140 million hits from numerous sources in the past two weeks. Continue reading →

’Twixt the cobwebs of Halloween and the lights of Christmas
By Rosemary and Walter Brasch
Posted on November 26, 2015 by Rosemary and Walter Brasch

At one time, people placed carved pumpkins with a candle inside on their front porches to announce the beginning of the Halloween season. Continue reading →

Hurricane Katrina: It’s Obama’s fault, by George
By Rosemary and Walter Brasch
Posted on August 30, 2013 by Rosemary and Walter Brasch

Almost one-third of Louisiana Republicans blame President Obama for the slow and largely ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast, Aug. 31, 2005. More than 1,800 were killed in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; estimates of property damage exceeded $100 billion. Continue reading →