Ode to Moms Where would we be without you? You carried us to term Most of us love you unconditionally For others Something turned the worm It’s complicated, Freudian Between mothers and their kids Some moms procreate for nourishment Like snakes and katydids While others opt for nurturing Sometimes suffocatingly so…
For as long as I can remember there have been conservationists and environmental crusaders banging on pots, marching with their hand-drawn placards, pontificating on soapboxes and banding together in more organized and well-funded groups like the Sierra Club or the Cousteau Society. Their singular goal, if I may be simplistic,…
I don’t know that much about Dr. Oz, (I think he’s the real Oprah doctor, not the fake, Dr. Phil one), or the hullabaloo surrounding his endorsement of suspect weight-loss products, but the media frenzy and his impassioned, yet half-hearted response to claims that he is knowingly hawking snake oil…
I get Doug “Gryrocopterman” Hughes’ frustration on many levels. As a postman, his awareness of the need to personally deliver important mail, rather than to trust the hit-or-miss USPS, is an issue with which I have wrestled on numerous occasions, (just try to actually track something you’ve sent by the…
If I was, say…Ayatollah Joelie, for instance, and I had, like, most of my country bowing to my every pronouncement, I think I could come up with something a little more inspiring than, “Death to America!” as my go to rallying cry. Not that it doesn’t seem to play well…
Here’s the reason a room full of powder-wigged-smarty-pants forefathers knew that a new nation, whose most fundamental precepts were freedom and equality, (except, of course, for the human chattel which somehow didn’t figure into their original vision), for “all”, had to mandate a distinct separation of church and state: Religions…
Just to be clear, TED Talks® are insightful, educational, entertaining presentations by compelling presenters on subjects meant to stimulate creative thought. When Ted Cruz talks, not so much. I’m not expecting to expend much energy commenting on the antics of Senator Cruz. He’s a rather meaningless, moronic, monkey-boy of the…
There’s a lot of renewed vigor in the conversation about racism as a result of improper police activity, (especially toward young, black men), irresponsible frat boy behavior, (as if responsible frat boy behavior was even a thing), the immigration debate, (in particular when it comes to that “pesky Meskin issue”),…
I’m probably not supposed to be writing to you. Besides, I keep hearing your leaders calling for the annihilation of all Jews, of which I am one, and death to America, where I live, and that you’ve been busting your ass to get a nuclear weapon, which I’m totally against…
I like Pharrell Williams’ music. I don’t find it deep or insightful but it makes me bop in a not “would-you-please-make-it-stop?” kinda way…oh, and “Happy” makes me…happy, although I’m genuinely concerned that it has instilled in millions of young poets a tacit laziness by popularizing the rhyming of “roof” and…