Words have become so politicized that the yin or the yang of ‘conservative’ versus ‘liberal’ belies their roots. 2012 conservatives are certainly not advocating the conservation of much of anything: a strong-voiced middle class…hardly; the constitutional mandate of equality…pshaw; educational excellence…duh; trees, water, clean air…fuckin’ Sierra Club! They constantly invoke…
pow·er (pour) n. 1. The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively. 2. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude. Often used in the plural: her powers of concentration. 3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might. See Synonyms at strength. 4. The ability or official capacity to…
I vividly remember the first time I stared into a clear, night sky, somewhere far from city lights, and came face to face with my philosophically minute meaninglessness. My three or four or five-year-old self drank in my insignificance with growing terror until a shooting star or a mooing cow…
As I promised last week… 1. He was a bully in prep school, (I’m in Detroit, and I can see his prep school from here), and he’s been a bully in business. 2. He calls himself Mitt. 3. He has no moral center and has no true position on any issue. No…that’s not…
At 14, even though I wasn’t much of a car kid, I remember watching Tod and Buz, (really, one ‘d’, one ‘z’), motor down Route 66 in their vintage, (I guess it wasn’t so vintage then), Vette, living a carefree life of hedonistic adventure and thinking…that’s definitely something I want…
…and there’s nobody there to read it… There’s a lot of really smart, insightful stuff written every day by scholars, scholarly journalists, far-thinking bloggers and, often, the most common among us. Too much of this potentially life-changing wisdom falls silently in metaphorically unpeopled forests or is called into question by…
There once was a man from Nantucket Who got his head caught in a bucket When the townsfolk said “Hey… “Mitt, lead us, we pray!” He’d say, “This way…I mean that way..awwww shucks!”
First of all, even though I live in upstate NY, the dialectical epicenter of unpronounced consonants, I think anyone speaking out in public with regard to the on-going investigation and inevitable circus trial of George Zimmerman, must be required to participate in remedial speech therapy and subsequently be publicly reprimanded…
Big weekend. Millions around the world were taking the half-day off on Friday while millions of others were cleaning their house with a feather, (there’s a really funny old joke that comes to mind, but I’m serious about this), in the eternally-connected, albeit somewhat polar opposite, Passover/Easter celebration…oh, and the…