Insurers certainly don’t; politicians, with few exceptions, too preoccupied with reelection; hospitals and doctors, (although many nurses get a pass), rarely; the court, Supreme or otherwise, despite their insignificant and bumbling decisions of the past week…no!; the church…holy shit, no! Of course, I mean caring about important stuff like the…
I hate wasting time and yet, like most of you, I imagine, I often feel like I’m wasting lots of it. However, the consequences of my wasteful actions, (except maybe with regard to that butterfly-wing-flap philosophy), cause no economic meltdown, no genocide, no environmental disaster and seldom, if ever, result…
Words have become so politicized that the yin or the yang of ‘conservative’ versus ‘liberal’ belies their roots. 2012 conservatives are certainly not advocating the conservation of much of anything: a strong-voiced middle class…hardly; the constitutional mandate of equality…pshaw; educational excellence…duh; trees, water, clean air…fuckin’ Sierra Club! They constantly invoke…
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I vividly remember the first time I stared into a clear, night sky, somewhere far from city lights, and came face to face with my philosophically minute meaninglessness. My three or four or five-year-old self drank in my insignificance with growing terror until a shooting star or a mooing cow…
As I promised last week… 1. He was a bully in prep school, (I’m in Detroit, and I can see his prep school from here), and he’s been a bully in business. 2. He calls himself Mitt. 3. He has no moral center and has no true position on any issue. No…that’s not…
At 14, even though I wasn’t much of a car kid, I remember watching Tod and Buz, (really, one ‘d’, one ‘z’), motor down Route 66 in their vintage, (I guess it wasn’t so vintage then), Vette, living a carefree life of hedonistic adventure and thinking…that’s definitely something I want…
…and there’s nobody there to read it… There’s a lot of really smart, insightful stuff written every day by scholars, scholarly journalists, far-thinking bloggers and, often, the most common among us. Too much of this potentially life-changing wisdom falls silently in metaphorically unpeopled forests or is called into question by…