It defies every law of social interaction. For the rest of us, even an inadvertent misstep, (imprudent lane change, unguarded remark or under-calculated tip), can banish us, (sometimes permanently), to the giant basket of Bloody, Fucking Assholes, while Muffin Head, who deliberately and repeatedly demeans friend and foe alike, gets…
I understand that there is little chance that an actual Trump supporter would ever be reading this, (the literacy thing aside), but on the wild chance… I get your frustration with the status quo. Government is inefficient, wasteful and too often unresponsive to the issues that seem important to the…
Have you ever noticed that the people with the least to contribute usually make the loudest noise? (I’m writing this very, very quietly…just sayin’) It’s probably not a linguistic accident that the word describing the affliction resulting in a lack of speech has become ironically synonymous with being just plain…
Amidst all of the hoo-ha, name-calling, chest-thumping, finger-pointing, poll-taking and retaking, what’s missing in this campaign, (maybe it’s always been missing), is a comprehensive list of existential, social and economic issues that each candidate should be compelled to address. In fact, that list should be all they are allowed to…
It’s an Olympic year and thousands of mostly young athletes have marched into Brazil with varying degrees of expectation that they will leave as medalists and, Zeus willing, gold medalists. The IOC, the very, very profitable governing body of both the summer and winter every-four-year testosterone frenzy, has honed the…
It’s certainly not the crap that gets the most press and attention. Politics obviously doesn’t matter. The baseless bullshit that masquerades for the causes and programs proposed by candidates and incumbents alike has minimal cumulative import and even less inherent benefit to the health, safety or emotional well-being of us,…
This might be hard, because along with my very, very low carb diet, I’ve vowed to wean myself off of using his name. Anyway, here goes. I’ve been reading a lot about truth and lies lately. A few months ago, the “Ethicist”, in The NY Times, began a discussion on…
I’ve been a political junkie for as long as I can remember, (I’ll add the ‘wow…since last Tuesday?’ part so that I can save some of you the sarcasm). I listened to party conventions on the radio and later sat mesmerized by the pomp, circumstance and balloon barrages, first in black…
It’s illogical to be expected to assume the position, (how many of us can still bend over and grab our ankles?), that “black” or “all” or some other designated, put upon demographic matters. And yet, in the aftermath of public tragedy and unimaginable atrocity, reactionary alignment, validating our differences, is…
It’s an irrevocable, irrational emotion that creeps into our unsuspecting psyche in our earliest, most pliable years, initially directed at food, (often green in color), too-huggy relatives, scratchy clothing, bedtime and school. It is nurtured by the overtly thoughtless behavior of family, friends and the unfiltered and unending barrage of…