Trump: Uninformed, unknowing, illiterate, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, boorish, self-absorbed, self-loving, egomaniacal, hypocritical, corpulent, blubber butt, falsifier, fake, malapropian, phony, swindler, grifter, philanderer, adulterer, rapist, unfaithful, pencil-dick, scumbag, humbug, dimwit, xenophobe, unethical, unscrupulous, immoral, unprincipled, obnoxious, menacing, repulsive, hazardous, dodgy, unsafe, unaware, uncaring, gluttonous, chubby, chunky, tubby, greasy, oleaginous, sloppy, seedy,…
I struggled with the separation of the ‘A’ and ‘M’ in the title of this piece. I admit, I was feeling more than a little Aesopian, but the cautionary tales spun by the master were, by sheer definition, fabulous, while I, like all of you, find myself grappling, day in…
Sadly, our unfettered access to an endless barrage of media coverage has inured or empathetic response to long-term disaster. I think it probably started with Viet Nam War reportage and the daily tally of the dead, the wounded and the missing in action. In short order, those became just numbers…
I’m sure that there was a good deal of mockery when Alexander Fleming proposed his moldy bread idea as a game changer in the fight against deadly bacterial infection, so, as much as I despise every cell in Donald Trump’s bulbous body, perhaps, and, to be clear, like him, I…
Hope you’re all well. This social distancing, (for those of us not in some dumb-fuck place like South Dakota or Florida), has been an odd mix of fear, anxiety, patriotism and, first and foremost, a rare, unifying example of civic responsibility. If only we had leaders who gave a shit,…
Let me just get this out of the way…FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! The Coronavirus pandemic is something that was, but a mere two months ago, just a far-fetched plot for a doomsday mini-series or a preposterous Dwayne Johnson movie. Raise your hand if you had the slightest inkling that most of the world…
Like everyone, I have a lot more time on my hands these days. I’m saddened by suffering, the heartbreaking loss of life, unhugged loved ones and the rug-pulling end to the equilibrium I took for granted by assuming my government, at least for the big, catastrophic stuff, had my ass…
I loved The Day the Earth Stood Still! “Gort, Klaatu barada nikto”…you know what I’m sayin’? In 1951, when this brilliant, lo-tech classic was released, my classmates and I were still participating in nuclear attack drills by squatting, heads down under our desks. I think there may have been an…
I’m going to be political for a minute, then I’m going to get uncharacteristically warm and fuzzy. Everyone should be appalled at, ashamed of and frightened by our blundering administration. Our lying, know-nothing President and his pandering minions are a threat, like a “they’re-literally-trying-to-kill-us” threat. Their lack of competence and…
It’s looking like you will be the Democratic nominee, that is, of course, unless you make some completely boneheaded blunder. I am not a political expert, but as someone nearly your age who has actively and maddingly participated in the process of governance for most of my life, I have…