I’ve been searching the web for any reference to last week being“International Scandalous Behavior Week”, (at least being exposed for scandalous behavior), but either Google isn’t up to the task or it just hasn’t been made official yet. Chronologically, I guess I have to start with Polanski. I would venture to…
Things used to be much simpler when I was a kid, at least the part about atoning for the stuff you did wrong. There was, of course, the underlying terror of what would happen if you didn’t properly utilize the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, or if…
Let’s not be too hard on the ‘medical technicians’, (aka completely untrained guards), in the Ohio prison that couldn’t find a vein to lethally inject Romell Broom. God knows I’ve watched, horrified, as real ‘medical professionals’ poke and prod at poor Terri-Lynn in vain, (sometimes I embarrass myself coming up with this…
Thank you, Joe Wilson. Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re a moronic, racist asshole, but you’re tourettian outburst, (although heinously motivated), has underscored the most basic problem facing the world today. Everybody’s lying! It’s become a global pandemic, much deadlier than the Swine Flu, (which could also be a lie), what…
Hey, Bar, It’s me again. Come on, please don’t disappoint me. So many of us have been waiting so long for someone like you to come along, that a less than satisfactory result would be devastating. I won’t pretend to comprehend the weight of your job, (I mean, I hit…
I was fortunate to have met Senator Kennedy on three occasions. Twice at large gatherings where a handshake and then, “Nice to meet you”, and “Nice to meet you, again”, were pretty much the extent. But the third time, in a side room at Feinstein’s in NYC where I was…
I like Barney Frank. Sure, he’s a career politician with many of the unseemly traits that accompany that particular vocation, but he is, at least, a plain speaking guy who isn’t afraid to tilt at a windmill or two. His well-publicized encounter this week with the moronic fringe, emboldened me…
I know a lot of words, but apparently I wasn’t paying attention in phraseology or context class. I’m hip to the fact that any contract longer than two paragraphs isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, (lawyers gotta eat too), but how did the fundamental foundations of our country become…
I saw on the news, or maybe I read it on the InterNet or possibly I overheard the ranting of the well-informed homeless guy who lives on the bench by the Saratoga post office, that the recession is over. I guess Obama is wary of jumping the gun and making…
It’s nearly impossible for me to wrap my head around the concept of compensation. If I look at a table of figures for various jobs, then expand the criteria to include the chasm between the upper and lower limits and throw in the random insertion of a geographical stick pin,…