I have, at best, a tacit relationship with philosophy. However, I have grown comfortable in my acceptance of “the speck of dust” theory of my importance in the cosmos, and as I sit here, pondering the passing navels of the patrons in this crowded coffee shop, I find I am…
When did the dumbest among us, (I love that pseudo-rhyme and will be using it again soon), get the loudest voice and headline press? Why would anybody give a shit what Donald Trump or any one of a gaggle of countless, mispronouncing, factually-challenged morons has to say? I know why. …
Lewis Carrol’s Queen of Hearts’ screams of, “Off with their heads!”, is an ingrained and recurring nightmare in the kid-scary part of the brain of most of us who read or saw some version of Alice’s Adventures. Descriptions and cinematic recreations of beheadments as capital punishment, (the infallible type), by…
Rest assured, I have not fallen prey to the lure of a potential windfall for participating in InterNet advertising. Although I have certainly delighted in the occasional sale-rack T or cardigan, and it’s hard to imagine where else, these days, a doting grandparent can re-wardrobe a pre-teen for under $150,…
…the Maine, the Alamo, to look both ways before crossing the street, to wash behind your ears, only you can prevent forest fires, to brush after meals, your locker number, to call your mother, to look before you leap, to water the plant, to buckle up, where you parked the…
Those of you who have taken the couplet-ed stroll through one of my New Year’s poems, may hold the notion that I have a morbid fascination with death…quite the contrary. I’m obsessed with life. Of late, I’ve become equally intrigued by the often polar distance between the effect a person…
President Obama, (who, let’s face it, can do no right), has been called out by supporters and foes alike for his seemingly casual comment, “We tortured some folks.” In reviewing the comedic, editorially disappointed and fire and brimstone responses, it would seem that the universally agreed upon and unforgivable word…
After a wildly productive legislative session wherein our bungling bevy of bi-camerans grudgingly agreed to throw a few billion dollars at the shamelessly broken veterans’ care debacle and, well ummm, what am I forgetting?…oh, yeah, agreeing to sue the President, the members of the 113th Congress are taking a completely…
I watch Game of Thrones. The genre is really not my cup of tea, but it was promo-ed so relentlessly as a lead in to Boardwalk Empire that I gave it a shot…and got hooked. I can’t say, for sure, what compels me to remain engaged. I most certainly could…
I don’t like not knowing, so I watch and I read and I listen with apologetic distance from the multiple horrific epicenters of the daily news. I guess I don’t possess a nationalistic predisposition, (although I am vividly aware of and grateful for the luck of my geographical inception), so…