I was asked a question the other night. I didn’t write it down, so, this is how my interpretive dance of memory has preserved it to date: “If the most devastating consequence of climate change, rising seas that will likely, and relatively soon, claim low-lying coastal lands, like Holland and…
I like candy as much as the next guy, and Halloween was always an excuse for otherwise inappropriate behavior, so, even though I haven’t been an avid participant for quite some time, I had planned, this year, to craft the most amazing costume depicting the terror I feel at the…
That mysterious compulsion to pursue something with minimal or no regard for cost or resistance or personal safety, can be lauded or blamed for the best and worst behaviors of animal kind. Whether the inbred impulse of the migratory bird, the unrelenting determination of Antarctic penguin procreation or the unwavering…
So, there’s all this hoo-ha about US restaurants gearing up to change their policy of leaning on customers’ tipping generosity to pay the lion’s share of the salaries of their servers. The proposed change would add a “hospitality” charge to each patron’s bill, (similar to that 6-or-more thing that happens…
Mostly, it’s about not being embarrassed by the bat shit craziness that has become the trump, (various puns intended), suit of a party without constructive purpose, agenda or imagination. That it attracts such a wide swath of confused adherents, mostly in response to their hate for the real or perceived…
Although the notion of collecting funds to underwrite the welfare and protection of socialized constituencies is a noble one, in practice, it took feudal lords and rampaging conquerors and their modern-day counterparts, elected or otherwise representative governments, about fifteen minutes to completely fuck it up. The lords, etc. asked too…
Personally, I am not going to miss his orange, weepy face and I actually do hope that the Capital door hits him in the ass on his way out. His abrupt departure will have about as much impact as his meaningless career in Congress and, for someone whose public profile…
The fully referred-to version of this motherly advice would certainly seem appropriate in making the world a better and safer place. It’s abbreviated form, in my humble opinion, should be no less universally heeded. Amidst the clamorous indignation, the huffing and puffing, the fist pounding and foot stomping in defense…
I’m imagining Kim Davis, the self-righteous clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, languishing away in a urine-spattered, over-crowded cell with her bunkmate, Androgynous Andi, praying, (hopefully on her knees in the aforementioned spatterings), to her uncompassionate god. I’m also hoping that she decides to take this thing as far as she…