Two Congressmen, a Senator and the President walk into a bar…
It just can’t be about the loud, brash, mostly ridiculous onslaught of inanity we come face to face with at every turn and as much as I’d like to embrace the Buddhist philosophy of all life being equal and interchangeably reincarnate, I am too sensitive to the inequalities to rub…
Back in the 50’s, on Northlawn Ave., when Detroit was way more than just a cool place to call your hometown, we spent many a Spring, Summer and Fall afternoon and evening playing extended rounds of Kick the Can as well as its more exciting, and exponentially more dangerous hybrid,…
Let’s take specific issues out of the mix. Let’s not even talk about the Republican/Democratic debate of the last forty or so years, with Republicans mostly, (I was tempted to say ‘only’), ranting about fiscal topics, budgets, taxes, military funding, etc., while Democrats have been talking about social issues and…
It has to be an unbelievable rush for anyone to command the attention and control that Tom…I mean Ted Cruz has stumbled into. I can’t say that I, (and probably most people), if suddenly in a position to make big things happen, wouldn’t at least take that power for a…
Anybody ever have a medical insurance issue, (I’m intuiting a unanimous show of hands)? Let me first explain that all of those problems, from the disallowed coverage of the one drug you needed or the denial of your life-saving liver transplant based on…well, nothing really other than your insurer’s arbitrary…
I expect absolutely nothing from Congress, so why would I even care or comment on the Republican’s latest blustering bullshit display of governance?…because if I simply try to ignore it, my head might explode. On Friday, facing an eminent financial government shutdown, (aren’t these weekly occurrences now?), frankly, due to…
When I was in middle school, (we still called it Jr. High back then), there was this guy, Tommy Thorpe, (if you’re out there, Tommy, and you can read and for whatever reason, you’re reading this…Fuck You!), who liked to kick my ass every day after class. I would meet…
This may be a bit premature and lacking some important, critical information. After all, the President is going to make some kind of speech on Tuesday and, one could only hope, he will clearly point out why we should or shouldn’t take action against Syria, including an explanation as to…
Collateral damage, friendly fire, civilian casualties; despots, maniacs, crusaders, jihadists; I see dead people. Humans war. They have always warred; for territory and property; for ideology; out of cruelty and bigotry and madness; for freedom, liberty and justice; on the offense and in defense; and people die by the thousands,…