As I found myself in storm-safe, albeit snowy, Columbus, Ohio, during Sandy’s rage up the East Coast, I was thinking that I should rage about the in-your-face absurdity of Global Warming deniers; an eight hundred-mile-wide killer storm roiling up the too warm October waters of the Atlantic…how could anyone deny…
I believe that everyone should have the right to believe in a gendered or genderless being/force/flyingspaghettimonster who may omnipotently care or chose not to care about the 9,000-year-old, (or older), speck of cosmic dust called Earth and the creatures huddled thereon. But…because most of those beliefs imply, infer or out-and-out…
When I was seven or eight, I decided to teach myself how to play the guitar. Guitar for Beginners by Rennie Lester was at eye level, (my 4’-2” eye level anyway), on the rack in Krupp’s music store, so I paid the seventy-five cents and hurried home. My older brother…
I believe in debate. I believe that discussions between passionate people with differing opinions can lead to better solutions to problems than tackling them from a single-minded point of view. Modern political campaigns and American-Idolesque face-offs masquerading as debate have drifted far afield from the simple concept of candidates stumping…
Like many of you who suffered through the ninety minutes posing as this election’s first Presidential debate, I was perplexed by the demeanor, (or lack thereof), of my guy, while the well-coached Mr. Romney was pre-programmed to bulldoze his message, (or lack thereof), through the confusing format, (or lack thereof),…
My redesigned website is taking a bit longer than expected to launch. Besides, I’ve been busy cramming for Wednesday’s debate, (is it still considered a debate if one of the debaters has no opinions to defend?), choosing and stocking the appropriate snacks, and rating the various participating networks to determine…
Dear Mitt, First of all, don’t get all squirrelly about this personal communication. It’s true, that the rules require me to only talk directly to Efrey, (I still can’t get that penis-biting image out of my mind), but with the White House so close to being in my grasp, I…
September 11 slipped by this week, (literally on NBC’s Today Show, which opted for a Kardashian breast augmentation segment rather than covering the Ground Zero ceremony), and many speeches were given about “never forgetting”, (how could we?), and how we’ve “pulled together as a nation”, (BULLSHIT!). The very real nightmare…
It dawned on me, recently, that I have spent most of my life surrounded by people who shared the same, (or damn similar), social and political beliefs as I. Lately, maybe because the emotional polarity between conservative and liberal thinking has widened, I find myself face-to-face with friends, family and…
The blissfully hurricane-shortened, (I don’t mean to imply here that anything about Isaac, other than lopping a full day off of the convention schedule, is anything but tragic), gathering of the Fairy Dust Party provided a smorgasbord, (all-you-can-eat where Chris Christie was concerned), of self-serving speakers, whose topics and agendas…