Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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Opinion Throats in Trouble
Tobacco is back in the news again, with the $375 million pledge by billionaires Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg to help curb smoking. In my lifetime — I am now 96 — the story of tobacco has undergone a profound change. At one time, the smoke-filled room was an ever-present mark of social and political…
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Opinion Speaking for God
Right now, in scholarly circles, there is a search for the true author of what has come to be known as the “Serenity Prayer.” The prayer reads, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” The authorship has…
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Opinion We Ought To Ask Why
From a multitude of sources comes the disturbing news that far too many of our soldiers are committing suicide upon return to the United States from Iraq, or while still in country. We ought to ask why. Perhaps we may get a clue from a portion of the great novel “Brothers Karamazov,” in which the…
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Opinion Unto the Seventh Generation
In order to kick-start the sluggish economy, the federal government has decided to spend billions of dollars on tax rebates — that is, giving out cash to the public. The expectation was that with their newly found dollars, families would start buying things at the stores, putting money into circulation and stirring companies to hire…
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Opinion Dumping On Our Descendants
The Bible says that the sins of the parents will be punished on the children, yea unto the seventh generation. The “sins” we are committing are embodied in the ever-mounting debt that our generation is incurring that will have to be paid off by our kids and their kids and so on and on. The…
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Opinion The Wrong And Right Way Out
The American economy is in trouble. It is not the first time. In the 1930s, the American economy sank into a depression. As a candidate for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt described the situation with “one third of the nation ill fed, ill clothed, ill-housed.” He took steps to revive the economy by creating jobs. They…
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Opinion The Sad Bad Story of Governor Spitzer
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and that violates my — or any — sense of right and wrong,” Eliot Spitzer said. The obvious question is just why or how a highly intelligent man like Spitzer worked his way into such a situation. What follows is my own…
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Opinion The Call of the Cold
The latest trend among tourists is the Arctic Circle. Why? The answer may perhaps be found in a quatrain we recall from childhood. Man’s a fool. When it’s hot he wants it cool. When it’s cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not. This strange behavior is not hard to understand. Novelty, as…
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