Like most of my friends and family, I have been harboring the rapidly vanishing, hopeful notion that the last or the next or certainly the revelation after that of some misconduct or preposterous turn of phrase or random and dire Executive action, would be the final straw whose cumulative weight…
Liar, liar, liar, liar, liar, traitor, traitor, asshole! It would seem that cyclothymia is a starter affliction for Tourette’s. If I’m not yelling my opening sentence, (I know, Mrs. Millman*, it’s technically not a sentence), at the TV, or sporadically into thin air, it’s being looped in my brain as…
Because I’m weird that way, (you know, trusting that questions have reasonable answers), and because I hold tightly to the absolute belief that either very little or almost everything is a result of happenstance…you can imagine my cathartic sigh of relief when the light bulb flashed in my head, and…
I ran into some old friends this week, (perusers of my weekly rants), who individually and only semi-jokingly greeted me as the Prince of Darkness. I won’t argue the generally dour nature of my theses, (nor my obsession with aptly placed adverbs), but I would hope that the satanic implication…
In the seventeen months since Chicken Little’s greatest fears became manifest, the United States of America has backslid, losing 150 years of credibility as a beacon of hope and freedom and opportunity by shaking its bloated, militaristic stick, thumbing its nose at global problems that the rest of the world…
The ‘H’ word. You know, the one toddlers pick up early on from familial and peer conversations, quickly embracing the power, despite, or perhaps emboldened by passionate reprimands for its overtly uncompromising assertion. Let’s face it, humans are programmed to hate, individually, in ethnic and socio-economic groups, logically or otherwise: authority,…
So…nuclear war did not ensue, (yet). As a matter of fact, with regard to the “biggest-greatest-summit-of-all-time”, the meeting between the smirking, despot and the Korean guy, (too harsh?), resulted in no substantial ensuementof any kind. Not that the week was without its moments of international import…we did throw Canada, (I had…
In two days, (I’m thinking that if there’s anybody around in the future to read a chronicle of the event, it has to be nicknamed ‘Bad Hair Day’), the sideshow comes to Singapore and the entire world will focus on two insignificant, (albeit, potentially civilization-ending), crackpots who will match wits,…
Roseanne is not stupid. Somewhere in her history, she was exposed to and then fully embraced a separatist, racially intolerant view of the world. This week, enabled by the Tweeter-in-Chief, she knowingly, albeit “jokingly”, went too far for the sensitivity of the current Disney stewardship, (having boldly come a long…
Remember the Tea Party, (the real one, in Boston, not the anti-American, racist-inspired one of late)? Remember when freedom of speech and an individual’s First Amendment rights took precedence over anyone else’s irrational desire to stifle them? Remember when the United States of America was a homogeneous amalgam of immigrants who…