Columns

After routing his last two rivals in Tuesday’s Indiana primary election, Donald Trump has just about locked up the Republican presidential nomination.

As Bob Dylan wrote, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blows. May is upon us and I can reasonably predict it’s going to be a scorcher. 

A few weeks ago I occupied this space to carp about how social media have become distracting time bandits in our day-to-day lives. Now, it’s time to eat some crow. 

Rotary of Ajijic

Terry MacDonald, a Rotarian and the managing director of Global Co-operative, gave a presentation on co-operatives at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Ajijic.

Maybe it is due to the springtime heat wave that’s kicking in, or some weird alignment of the planets, but for some reason a lot of my fellow expats have become extremely cranky of late. 

It seems to me that climate change is devastating the USA … and I’m not talking about environmental matters. It’s the scorched earth condition of the nation’s political landscape that’s given me a rampant case of patriotic blues.