By Cadbury FitzPatrick I have a bone to pick with some of my human friends. While I am not formally educated, my breed (Australian...

February 15, 2021 (President's Day) Today is Presidents’ Day. As I sit at my desk (actually at my computer) and ponder the events of the...

Published February 12, 2021 I have the writing bug. Don’t worry, it’s not communicable (pun intended), at least I don’t think it is. But...

By Cadbury FitzPatrick I have two new pen pals. Clementine (I call her Clemmie) lives in a very large place called California, which as...

By Cadbury FitzPatrick I was surprised, pleased and impressed at the positive reaction to my first article. One commentator even...

I am a dog. A real one, canus lupus familiaris, four paws, tail, the whole package. I’ve been part of my human family for about four of...

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-fitzpatrick-817205870/anno-insanium Well, 2020, you have been quite a crazy year. And you are not...

OK, everyone. Take a deep breath. Exhale slowly. Repeat as necessary. You likely have heard the phrase “May you live in interesting...

For a long time now, I have watched with consternation and confusion as just about every pillar of the foundation of my belief in the...

So far, 2020 has been very difficult. I know that that statement is a real BSO (blinding statement of the obvious), but I thought, given...

I am about to be very non-PC (politically correct) in terms of highlighting a difference between men and women, and I am going to rely on...

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s not kid ourselves: the November 3rd election will be the most consequential election in the history of our...

Does anyone else get the feeling that we are all living on Htrae (Earth spelled backwards), the comic book “Bizarro World” where...

The following is an editorial submitted for the July 17, 2020 issue of The Greenwich Sentinel. There have been a few bright spots in this...

The following was published as an editorial in the July 10 issue of The Greenwich Sentinel. This week witnessed two incredibly welcome...

There is a lot to write about these days: the COVI-19 pandemic; a hyper-partisan and contentious Congress; activist courts; a capricious...

The following is an editorial I wrote for this week's issue of our local newspaper, The Greenwich Sentinel, on whose editorial board I...

My mother used to say, “There’s no grudge like an Irish grudge.” As my family is pretty much 100% Irish, I grew up observing that adage...

(First published in The Greenwich Sentinel on March 27, 2020) Ben Franklin famously said, “in this world nothing can be said to be...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are facing an existential threat to the future of our representative democracy. But contrary to the media...