So much for choosing wisely… I just finished redacting the “Older but wiser” reference from both my hard and digital copies of Bartlett’s, after something pretending to be democracy, (although that queen thing really muddies that allusion), led seventeen-and-a-half million Brits to choose hate, fear, suspicion, bigotry and isolationism over…
It isn’t any wonder that, at least in the English/American vernacular, “choice” has become the hipster equivalent of good…really good. The ability to choose, the luxury of having choices and the very powerful emotional satisfaction of thinking you’ve chosen correctly are among the most basic gifts of humanity. Certainly, there…
Often, I think it’s just me, but this time, not so much. I can certainly understand why thirteen plus million people are ready to get in lock, (or goose), step with Herr Trump. Fox News and the NRA and fundamentalist religious dogma have nurtured their fear of facts and inability…
I became a boxing fan in 1964, huddled around the radio with my grandfather, father and brother, listening through the crazed hoarseness of Les Keiter’s description of the kid that took down Sonny Liston. I never questioned, or thought inappropriate, the young Cassius Clay’s pronouncements that night, of, “I am…