…we don’t have enough to contend with, we might as well throw in a race riot. I am not involved in law enforcement except for the obvious, good-citizen observances, nor am I a policy maker except in those instances where my elected representatives push forward legislation I support. Yet, without…
It seems like only a few short months ago that Corona Time was a not-so-subliminal advertiser’s nudge to kick back and wrestle a slightly-too-big lime wedge into a chilled bottle of Mexican beer. Although that may not have completely changed for the diehard enthusiasts of such activity, for many more…
Trump: Uninformed, unknowing, illiterate, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, boorish, self-absorbed, self-loving, egomaniacal, hypocritical, corpulent, blubber butt, falsifier, fake, malapropian, phony, swindler, grifter, philanderer, adulterer, rapist, unfaithful, pencil-dick, scumbag, humbug, dimwit, xenophobe, unethical, unscrupulous, immoral, unprincipled, obnoxious, menacing, repulsive, hazardous, dodgy, unsafe, unaware, uncaring, gluttonous, chubby, chunky, tubby, greasy, oleaginous, sloppy, seedy,…
I struggled with the separation of the ‘A’ and ‘M’ in the title of this piece. I admit, I was feeling more than a little Aesopian, but the cautionary tales spun by the master were, by sheer definition, fabulous, while I, like all of you, find myself grappling, day in…
Sadly, our unfettered access to an endless barrage of media coverage has inured or empathetic response to long-term disaster. I think it probably started with Viet Nam War reportage and the daily tally of the dead, the wounded and the missing in action. In short order, those became just numbers…