Whenever I hear the word ‘decade’, I’m reminded of a list I once read which defined it as: something you use to preserve the wood on your patio. That same list also explained ‘asphalt’ as: a rectal disorder. The waning decade, that did not bring us the Y2K apocalypse, made…
Some of you may know the story of my absence from my senior high school yearbook. Though the details of that story are unimportant here, the subtext might infer a certain bitterness on my part for the various, “most likely to” assignments, (passed out by God knows whom, but reflected…
What does it say about we humans that, (except for the oddball Mother Theresa, Ed Begley, Jr. or Forest Gump), our general behavior is so far less than admirable, that even Jiminy Cricket would be loath to keep most of us in line? I can’t begin to count the number…
December 6, 2009 President Barak Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 Dear Mr. President: Please note that I have purposely retreated from my “Dear Bar” salutation of previous correspondence in the hope that you may take this more to heart. I followed, via leaks…