Hey, I’ve got a great idea, everybody! In the midst of a world at war and in blitheringly blind economic chaos, let’s find something warm and fuzzy to focus on to make us all feel better. How ‘bout the perpetuation of the bullshit concept of royalty? You know, where the…
I’m sure it’s been around since the dawn of mankind; somebody’s good at doing something but is lacking in the self-promotion gene, so another guy, (calling himself an agent because pimp was simply too self-deprecating and they probably didn’t have those cool hats back then), with an overabundance of “bullshit”…
Sorry, Mom… I don’t mean for this to be a partisan rant, but everybody repeat after me, “The Republican Party shamelessly represents only the richest 1% of Americans. Any Tea Partier, (aka reality-be-damned), Amoral Majoritier, Drill-Baby-Driller, (that would be oil, coal and natural gas), who thinks otherwise needs to either…
It may have been my Mom who passed along the old saw: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” This is me, being a respectful son.
I remember when I decided to finally give in and got my first pair of reading glasses. By then, I had spent years squinting, blinking and trying to adjust to the increasing focal length that eventually surpassed my arms’ reach. The ensuing revelation that printing techniques had not deteriorated into…
If you were writing the encyclopedia, (wikipedia?), entry for ‘Power Struggle’, this past week could have offered nearly every variation of the term. There were the on-going struggles for personal and political power in the middle east as well as in every legislative body around the globe, the sadly ineffective…
I’ve always had an uncanny ability to solve mazes. I look at the ‘finish’ and I can usually see a clear path back to the ‘start’. Perhaps, I wondered, that might be a valid approach to the socio-political-economic puzzle before us, for which a lack of a timely solution could…
I just spent a week with my Mom celebrating her 91st birthday. I did my best to stay totally engaged with her, resisting my weekly urge at waxing rhapsodic on any of the following topics: Libya Wisconsin Huckabee Sheen Economy Gingrich The East Coast Rapist Oscar The Weather Just talk…
You really can’t make this stuff up, and even if somebody did, they’d probably cast Charlie Sheen in the part of Mohamed Bouazizi, and unless he, (fine method actor that he is), really set himself on fire, (show of hands?), it would never live up to the real events unfolding…
The Borders bookstore in Saratoga Springs is closing. As stunned as I am, personally, that my own industry could fall into an unrecognizable electronic abyss in less than ten years, it seems unimaginable that books are following so quickly on its heals. And, lest you think I am somehow blind…