Hey, Friends, I spent a good part of the last couple of years working on a very cool project with a host of talented people. The delightful journey of recording the song and video for “Caffe Lena/Where the Music Never Dies”, written by myself and the endlessly talented Peter Davis,…
C The Romans used a ‘C’ to indicate the number 100. Late 19th century American educators developed the letter-grading system and assigned the ‘C’ to represent average performance. So, it seemed to me that there might be some correlation between the two as relates to the one hundred-day milestone of…
On Friday night, I went to see The Amazing Kreskin, (I know, I thought he was dead too, but no, he’s still doing his schtick…although he did blow his big closing bit where he has audience members hide his paycheck which he agrees to forfeit if he can’t intuit its…
A lot of what I write about is rooted in my perception of clear-headed, analytical thinking, admittedly judged by my own cogent analysis. I rarely sway far from my posted theses, although, on rare occasion, a differing opinion has led me to reevaluation, (I read Cuomo’s education bill top to…
If this was Jeopardy, the question would be, “What is a phrase that you’ll never hear from a Republican politician?” OK…for you purists…”never” should probably have been “seldom”, but would you at least grant that there’s a hard lean towards “never”? The notion that government has a necessary role and…
Note to the Democratic Congress…: Your Republican counterparts have made a decision to seek shelter up the ass of a dangerous, mentally unstable, (use this interactive space to fill in your favorite fear-inducing descriptors), Putin-controlled lunatic and, as far as I can tell, only you or the military have remedial…
Note to the Republican Congress…You are embarrassingly incompetent and morally bankrupt as relates to all of these things: rep·re·sent /ˌreprəˈzent/ verbverb: represent, 3rd person present: represents, gerund or present participle: representing, past tense: represented, past participle: represented Be entitled or appointed to act or speak for (someone), especially in an official capacity:”for purposes of litigation,…
I don’t know the name for this growing global movement in other languages, but its American, “English”, incarnation couldn’t be less descriptive of its intent or practice. The basic idea, the root, the syntax as well as the political motivation is that the populous, (common man as it were), finds…
I’m exhausted. I realize that I spend way too much energy trying to make sense out of the senselessness of what’s going on around me, but I really don’t know what to do. I’m signing petitions, contributing money, going to public forums, (is fora too pretentious), and blogging my ass…