Dear Don, It’s Christmas and Chanukkah. You’re probably surrounded by minions of ring-kissing friends and relatives, enjoying an out-of-touch-with-reality celebration of all things Trump, while too much of the world is in misery and chaos; chaos, in no small measure, as a direct result of the fear and uncertainty of…
I was invited to a friend’s home the other night for a small, casual dinner party. I knew everyone there and, (although I didn’t put a watch on it), mere minutes into the conversation around the kitchen island, someone said, not to me, “I can see you and I are…
A climate change denier will run the EPA. An anti-labor advocate will be the Secretary of Commerce. An anti-public education activist will be the Secretary of Education. The Secretary of State will have no diplomatic experience other than receiving a civilian medal of valor from Vladimir Putin. The WWE will oversee…
At least twenty of the last twenty-eight mornings, I’ve awoken with an overwhelming relief that, THANK GOD, that horrific nightmare was over. The seafood risotto, or the shrimp/quinoa stir fry or T-L’s lentil soup had traversed my digestive tract and sanity once again ruled. Then I turned on my laptop…
Pick one…no cheating! A. Thanks B. No, thanks C. None of the above You will be graded on an arbitrary curve. Scores will be posted on your lockers.
The problem with having an intellect, is that the sheer nature of rational thought can lead to the disqualification of other people’s thinking. I haven’t done the research, but I would guess, (rationally), that intellectuals are a product of some combination of nurture and nature. Certainly, there are those whose…
Odds are, Kellyanne Conway will remain an integral part of the Trump administration, (even typing those last two words sends shivers up my spine). There’s no question that she deserves most of the credit, (blame), for crafting his message and recognizing how to spoon feed it to the erratic, uninformed…
Not that anyone has asked me, but here’s my easy-to-use guide to voting, one way or the other, for the next President of the United States of America. I have attempted to be substantive and devoid of innuendo, bias or politics, (you know, that boil on the ass of society…
As this hits the Inter-Web, there will be 199 hours until the polls open on the East Coast. With any luck, approximately 12 hours later, one of the worst chapters in US history will come to an end. (I apologize, in advance, for all future rants on the next worst…
I get the celebrity thing. I’ve been surrounded by them for most of my life and I’ll freely admit the occasional wallow in the privilege that is afforded even those in the presence, (that would have been my designated position), of famous people. It’s a ridiculous notion, of course, to…