…and an extra hour of daylight to enjoy it. So, something truly remarkable has happened in a most unremarkable fashion. After one of our country’s most disastrous years, at least since the Great Depression, every Democratic member of Congress, except for the pea-brained Jared Golden of Maine, did their jobs,…
I am not able to verify this with Google Translate, but I’m absolutely certain, (at least, as certain as any statement, aside, rejoinder, exaltation, burp or babble from last week’s through-the-looking glass gathering of morons in Orlando), that CPAC is the colloquial, common, Cyrillic spelling, in Russian, for booooooooooo-shit. So,…
I know I’m overly critical of, well…everything. I’ve tried, really, I have: meditation, non-bendy yoga, fluffy pets and a variety of trendy and not-so methods, both pharmaceutical and otherwise. I’m sure I’ve relaxed once or twice in the past and I’ve been urged by others to try to channel that…
The Lone Star State…right? You know, like the one or only, the singular stand-out star on the now half-hundred field of flag stars. Like all things Texas, unapologetically braggadocious,“We’re bigger…we’re better…we’re #1!” It turns out, that Texas is, in fact, unique among the states. It stands alone as the only…
In an uncharacteristic reversal of previously nuanced variations of my less-than-enthusiastic belief in the goodness of my own species, I may have stumbled upon what I’m calling the Jiminy Effect, presuming that the Pinocchio Effect has most likely already been coined by someone opining on lying, large noses or some…
I’m not sure what I was expecting the beginning of the Biden administration to look and feel like. Actually, that’s not completely true. I thought that Biden and Harris and a bevy of smart and capable people surrounding them, would hit the ground running, as they have, taking a firm…
Pheeeeeeeeew! It’s probably going to take an historical look-back, many years from now, to put in perspective just how narrowly we dodged a nation-ending bullet. The rise of the malevolent, lying huckster, so adept at stirring the worst fears and behavior of so many unhappy citizens that brought us to…
I’ve been kind of obsessed with the fickle relationship most people have with the truth. As important as it seems to be in most cultural approaches to parenting, we are all guilty of playing fast and loose with our adherence to holding it dear; the fib, the white lie, the…
If I hadn’t used the pinch test so many times that I’m literally black and blue, I’d be somewhere near the end of my REM stage, identifying the events of this week as whack-a-doodle dreams that thankfully, I’d awaken from at any moment. But…owwww!, (tried one last time), this is…