I apologize if this rankles any feathers, but I am so ready to punch every bell-ringing, merchandise-discounting, season-greeting, happy-holiday-wishing Santa, clerk, postal worker and passerby. The shopping frenzy and the ridiculous decorating, creating a palpable angst far greater than the insincere tidings of joy, has completely warn out its cultural…
Thanks, really, to, well, to everyone and everything whom and what have cosmically combined to place me in this comfy chair at this particular moment in time. I am mostly grateful and well aware of being among the lucky ones whose travails pale in comparison to my personal piece of…
This should not be confused with the unsuccessful Senate legislation attempted, by Republicans, during W’s administration. That, very clearly, was the Nucular Option…very different. Stupid name aside, the change to make a simple majority of fifty-one votes replace the dumb super majority of sixty votes necessary to confirm most presidential…
I haven’t written in some time because I figured that reading a note while dodging so many bullets would be difficult at best and wouldn’t lend itself to heeding any sage advice. But, I think someone needs to say this to you. You have fucked it all up! Stop trying…
With only six weeks left in this year’s awards season, just when it was looking like it was a two-way tie between Anthony Weiner and Ted Cruz, out of nowhere comes the surely unbeatable candidate for Political Asshole of the Year, Rob Ford. Not wanting to offend other fat people…
Two Congressmen, a Senator and the President walk into a bar…
It just can’t be about the loud, brash, mostly ridiculous onslaught of inanity we come face to face with at every turn and as much as I’d like to embrace the Buddhist philosophy of all life being equal and interchangeably reincarnate, I am too sensitive to the inequalities to rub…
Back in the 50’s, on Northlawn Ave., when Detroit was way more than just a cool place to call your hometown, we spent many a Spring, Summer and Fall afternoon and evening playing extended rounds of Kick the Can as well as its more exciting, and exponentially more dangerous hybrid,…
Let’s take specific issues out of the mix. Let’s not even talk about the Republican/Democratic debate of the last forty or so years, with Republicans mostly, (I was tempted to say ‘only’), ranting about fiscal topics, budgets, taxes, military funding, etc., while Democrats have been talking about social issues and…