Excuse me for being like the guy that won’t get in step with Ali v Clay or Caitland v Bruce or Istanbul v Constantinople, but I remain a Persia-phile through and through. Why would a lover of Dick and Jane, The Sun Also Rises, The Prophet or even Fifty Shades…
It makes people crazy. It’s hoarded, stolen, worshiped, collected, exchanged, borrowed/lent, counterfeited, begged for, spent-like-a-sailor and “the root of all evil”. It’s real value is, well “less than the paper it’s printed on” but, although there’s no published empirical proof, it’s universally accepted that it “makes the world go ‘round”….
On April 20, 2010 British Petroleum’s Deep Water Horizon began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It continued, unchecked, for eighty-seven days. The devastation to the water, beaches, wildlife and the lifestyle and livelihood of millions of people in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida cannot be quantified by simple…
Just when you thought we were sinking hopelessly into the corporate/political quagmire, an unexpected majority of Supreme Court justices rise up on the side of “and justice for all.” I find myself reticent to parse the thought processes of the more conservative assenters of the Affordable Care Act, lest I…
I was specifically asked not to bore anyone with a rant about Donald Trump’s announced candidacy and his accompanying SNL-ish speech. Can I, at least, officially nominate him for this year’s Donald Sterling Award, honoring unfathomable stupidity and bigotry? And, anecdotally point out that that danish-headed, (that’s danish, like the…
Obama’s been smoking crack or something that’s seriously scrambled his brain, as he opens the door to send troops back to Iraq. Lebron James flashed his junk on network TV. The Republicans are well on their way to breaking their previous record for the number of half-wits they can shoehorn…
Although it sounds like an all-day, extremely painful dental procedure, the very rare “sporting event”, (37 years since it was last accomplished), wherein a stunted human straddles a highly inbred equine, beating him with a whip as incentive to run faster than the other little men aboard their respective horses,…
I confess…I’m no expert when it comes to most professional sports. Soccer, or futbol, for instance, can be paint-dryingly yawn-inspiring when spectated by the ill-informed or casual viewer. It’s not easy to grasp its high degree of rabid fan devotion unless you have irrationally shouted at a non-responsive TV broadcast…
We love holidays…and parades. The calendar is so fully crammed with commemorations, honoraria, anniversaries and birthdays, both heartfelt and frivolous, that Hallmark® barely has time to rearrange its featured selections so that say, “Podiatrist’s Day” gets a fair shake coming right on the heels, (sometimes these gems are unintentional), of…
What a cool word, with two very powerful, yet seemingly unrelated definitions: 1. a formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense, made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law. 2. a firmly…