by Michael Leppert | May 29, 2025 | Politics/Government
In the 1983 classic film, “Trading Places,” Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine are victims of a scientific experiment that is thrust upon them by the elite bosses of a Philadelphia commodities brokerage. Winthorpe is a young, snobby broker at the firm, with...
by Michael Leppert | Aug 21, 2024 | Politics/Government
Political conventions are not for me. I went to my first one, at the state level, last month and I thought I was going to break out in a rash from what felt like life-threatening inefficiency. Of course, I oppose the existence of big graduations, weddings and funerals...
by Michael Leppert | Mar 27, 2020 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I coached ten different seasons of youth sports in my younger days. Football, basketball and baseball are the languages I spoke to kids for a few years. Parental translating services were also part of my job. More than once, I had to explain to a young parent the...
by Michael Leppert | Jan 11, 2019 | Politics/Government
It was 9:00 on a dreary, wintery Tuesday night. Something lurked in the living room that was frightening in an almost inhuman way. A ghost or some sort of supernatural being had seized control of America’s television networks to tell a skin-crawling tale of evil...
by Michael Leppert | Jul 20, 2018 | Politics/Government
“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” is the famous chant from the 1939 cinema classic, The Wizard of Oz. It’s the frightened rant of Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man, right before they meet the cowardly Lion. And of course, the inhuman characters...
