Congress agreed to spend a flagillion dollars in order to keep the government open after taking every second, (actually, a few hours more than every second), of the three-week Continuing Resolution that reopened the government following its closure due to a stalemate on immigration reform. The record-breaking funding legislation, subsequently…
In order to maintain complete transparency with regard to the following memo, it is important to point out, that despite my unwavering belief in the veracity of every literal, nuanced or seemingly exaggerated assertion, in compliance with the modus operandi of the Executive Branch, this was all pulled directly out…
So, we United States of Americans, somewhere along the way, decided that we were simply and exclusively, Americans. I guess there was a certain degree of “fuck you” to the more-North, Central and South Americans, but that would be a miniscule blip compared to the attitude we showed the indigenous…
I have cyclothymic triggers that set me off, and I have spent most of the last decade trying to identify them and keep them in check. When I find myself on the wrong side of that scuffle, I am prone to hyperbole and the over-simplification of theses, (though clearly and…
I have spent the last three days doing in-depth research so as not to misrepresent my findings. I have read philosophies, legal decisions, treatises on ethics and morality and I am fully confident that my conclusion is without bias and accurate to the extent that empirical scrutiny may provide: Donald…
We have all been participants in a wild improv experiment that has replaced what used to be “The News”. It’s difficult to research when the transition from a credible Fourth Estate to whatever it has become today actually began, (I’m going to guess the Nixon administration may have been catalytic),…
I am mostly not happy this New Year There’s little evidence of a reboot Of the preposterously impossible situation we’re in And if you consider my point to be moot Well, I think you may be right My complaints had little weight I’ve become philosophically perplexed As a schizophrenic hater…
I grew up in a hand-to-mouth family but I truly never felt the lack of anything. My Mom and especially my Dad were both unconditional lovers. What could have been better than that? As a father and now, a grandfather, I feel the responsibility to pass that annuity on, while…
On a typical, (by Trumpian standards), Tuesday when the President of the United States was tweeting that the Junior Senator of New York was a whore, when the private White House counsel called for an independent prosecutor to investigate the on-going investigation of the independent prosecutor, when Taco Tuesday seemed…
When Paul Abbott created the successful BBC version, which later became John Wells’ even more successful Showtime series, Shameless was intended to caricature the lives of a family, so removed from the morals, etiquette, dress-code and all other forms of acceptable social behavior, that we would giggle in holier-than-thou horror…