interests:

Computers, history, great novels, baseball, politics, great music, old movies, audio equipment. My mother got me interested in boxing and was my political mentor.

Three of my favorite books: Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

my age:

Old enough to vote.

ask me about:

Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Lou Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Skelly Wright

My day job:

I passed the California Bar exam and practiced law for about ten years, also working in the insurance industry. Then I started a retail computer sales and service business that I had for 24 years. I closed it in 2014 and retired. I drove one of those notorious yellow cabs in New York City for five years to work my way through college.

Inspirational Text:

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
Of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not; rather find
Strength in what remains behind
-- William Wordsworth

I was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh, and just like the river, I've been running
Ever since

It's been too hard living
But I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there
Beyond the sky

There been times that I thought
I couldn't last for long
But now, I think I'm able
To carry on

It's been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon' come
Oh yes, it will
-- A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke

"We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin

Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -- Benjamin Franklin

The way to get rich is to practice law your whole life and then marry a rich window. -- Felix Frankfurter

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. -- Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” ― Robert Burns

Immortality — a fate worse than death. -- Edgar A. Shoaff

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra

You guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it's our turn. -- Justice Douglas quoting Justice Thurgood Marshall

To separate them [the African American children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. -- Chief Justice Earl Warren, Brown vs. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 494 (1954)

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Charles Schulz was a genius with an incredible imagination and understanding of human beings.

What Joe Biden should tell the GOP House of Representatives.