The trials of the wonton, twice-impeached, crime boss, ex-President of the United States will, barring the total collapse of civility in America, begin forthwith. The accompanying idiomatic tribulations have already begun. The forty-nine-page indictment that was filed this week by a Florida Grand Jury is so damning that anyone else…
I’m personally drawn to the notion of it being another man’s floor. Its very loud and newsy iteration of being an imaginary boundary requiring continually legislated expansion to avoid imminent disaster, well, that’s just political bullshit. The world’s economy teeters on the whim and perception of a handful of purposely…
Ode to Hate It’s everywhere And I hate it!
I like sports. I grew up in Detroit rooting for Al Kaline and Gordie Howe, then I was an avid softball player and a lunatic Laker fan for most of my 30 years in LA. So, I get the irrational, cultural overlay of novices having flights of unrealistic fancy and…
Chinese philosophy is steeped in the relationships of the natural order of things: earth to sky, man to beast, the this to the that. At some early point of my hippiest years, I stumbled upon the captivating simplicity of the yin/yang symbol and it’s cuddly, sixty-nine-ish, jigsaw-puzzlely black and whiteness…
They’re mostly a load of crap. Awards and award shows are rarely about the excellence of the people, products and places they profess to honor, rather, a device to draw attention to and raise money for the presenting organizations. There are now so many of them that once avid devotees…
Full disclosure…I am a white, straight, housed, clothed, well-fed, educated, healthy, American. You know, one of the lucky ones. I have marched, protested, written about and contributed to causes related to social injustices and inequality. I’ve been bullied, (who hasn’t), belittled and vilified as a “Jew boy”, but, in my…
¾ of a billion dollars is certainly nothing to sneeze at. I’m sure Dominion weighed the bird-in-the-hand possibility of our wonky judicial system blowing what seemed to be a slam dunk case, but once again, the settlement was a victory for the bad guys. The damning, revelatory internal communications of…
More and more, I find myself disoriented upon waking most mornings, trying to sort out which crazy shit bouncing around in my head is really happening and what I may have dreamed up. I mean, how, in one week, can the purportedly civilized, most-powerful-country-in-the-world generate so many preposterous headlines? 2O-YEAR-OLD…