I neither write nor read tweets. I understand both the value of disseminating information and the very natural inclination of people needing/wanting to be heard. Yet, in a world where an increasingly unsubstantiated reference resource, Wikipedia, has become the font of all information, the open spigot of Twitter blather scares…
I spent some wasted time this week, thinking I had a need to know the tipping point, when bullshit reportage became so prevalent in the mix of what had been mostly substantiated information, that much of the public decided not to care about its veracity. The waste being, that it…
Paul Tonko, United States House of Representatives 2369 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515 Kirsten Gillibrand, United States Senate 478 Russell, Washington, DC 20510 Charles Schumer, United States Senate 322 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear sirs and madam: I am a one-month-shy-of-seventy-six, third generation American citizen. In my lifetime,…
I was looking for a single word that was the opposite of “kindness”…couldn’t find one. I wrote it out in big, block letters and held it up to a mirror…that didn’t make the point. I suppose it’s telling that it’s not so simple. You have to put some effort into…
Anne Parsons saved my life Of course, She would make that throat-clearing laugh Or give you the look-away grin If presented with such an idea But Anne’s propensity for rescue Both quiet and boisterous Calm and intense Was her superpower Any wrong that could be righted Or diva, (more likely,…