I know, not quite what you’d expect for the holidays…but bear with me. I have come face to face with an inordinate dump of personal bullshit this year; an unwinnable confrontation with an insurance agency, an equally fruitless scuffle with the accounting department of a major music company, which shall…
I have just completed a week-long unscientific poll. I asked about 150 people the following question: “Is common sense a major factor in your decision making?” The result, (which I’m going to reveal straight away, rather than after these commercial messages…fuck you, CNN), was 100%, YES. So, I wondered, if this…
I’ve been running around ranting with my hair on fire for so long that I literally have no memory of what it felt like before the worst human being imaginable oozed his way into the Oval Office. I have long ago abandoned the concept of the last straw, or step-too-far…
It’s usually dangerous fleshing out big-picture problems in your head. However informed one may be, successfully tackling issues, that are not purely mathematical in nature, requires intellectual interaction and dialogue. A cursory, historic journey through the last twenty-five hundred years contains the data for the clinical trial of this supposition. …
A candid interchange between the President and an aide while visiting the site of the devastating Camp Fire in Northern California: POTUS: “Wow…the whole town of Pleasure, burned to shit.” Aide: “It’s Paradise, Mr. President.” POTUS: “Are you blind? It’s Hell! Coulda all been avoided if they’d only raked the forest,…
Do you remember hating Civics Class? I don’t recall much about elementary school, but I do have a visceral imprint of the droll, time-away-from-more-interesting-stuff necessity of learning about how government works and what it meant to be a citizen. Yet, even though I was not particularly engaged, my presence in…
OK, some good stuff happened on Tuesday. Perhaps we can get back to giving a shit about doing what’s right rather than what’s politically achievable. I’m not very hopeful, but we’ll see. However…watching the fractious state of our union play out at the polls was not soothing or satisfying or…
Without exaggeration or hyperbole or other misleading and fancy words used by, without actually being in the limited vocabulary of our lying-sack-of-shit President, we may only have one last voting opportunity to save the United States and, consequently, the planet from the blackest, most chaotic and destructive chapter in the…
When did we lose the usual? There used to be a thread From the delicate now to the hopeful future Then it frayed And I fear, may lay unmended In a pile of knee-hole jeans
I make no bones about the anger and despondency overwhelming every waking and too many of the restless-sleeping moments of my life. Since the 2010 midterms, when the batshit crazy Tea Party, (can you spell Koch brothers?), infiltrated, then dismantled the process of cogent thought by any Republican politician, the fear…