Something happened, right? I mean, we’re here…unless we’re all simply figments of Rod Serling’s imagination. In fact, our minuscule brains can’t begin to comprehend The Creation any more than say, the popularity of Dancing With the Stars. So, we have made up any number of ridiculous scenarios, banded together in self-righteous congregations and chosen…
The world as we know it will end because of TB. Not tuberculosis…True Believers. Human evolution has diddled with our mobility, the use of our extremities, language skills, (at least in some of us), and various voluntary and involuntary reflexes. What hasn’t evolved in any way is our primordial fear…
Here’s the problem class…the turmoil sweeping the globe like an unbridled tsunami is, in fact, no way comparable to the unpredictable devastation brought on by Mother Nature. Our disastrous chaos is manmade, totally predictable, unnecessary and avoidable. Most every horrible situation facing our planet, (even drought and flooding to some…
The traditional Halloween version involves a basic negotiation, bartering a yummy sweet treat in lieu of the soaping of one’s windows or the TP-ing of one’s trees. This is done in costume to protect the identity of the perpetrators, (not unlike the original, fake Indian Tea Party), and has become…
It’s about time…right? I mean, how much shit do people have to take before they get pissed off enough to mount a serious protest? Of course, fellow tweeter/bloggers, shouting with the tips of our fingers, clacking away at a keyboard, hardly compares to getting all stinky and hoarse while marching…
With deference to Herman Cain, my “8-8-8” plan simply makes more sense. It’s palindromic, it works both as a mirror image and upside down and, if you happen to look at it from the side, (either side), it’s infinity times 3 which is…well, a lot. Here’s how it works: 8…
Few manmade things and fewer people really change the world in significant ways and it seems that too many of those ways are seldom changes for the better. Steve Jobs was the exception to that unwritten rule. Although he didn’t invent the personal computer or the portable music player or…
Contrary to the arbitrary date above, everyone knows it’s really Tishri 4, 5772. For those of you who are thinking, ‘whoa…but wasn’t Thursday Rosh Hashannah, and isn’t Nissan the first month of the Jewish calendar?’ Quite true, but don’t get your tfillin in a bunch. Someone much sager than you…
When did everything become a “teaser”? Every scripted show on TV is now bookended by, “Previously on blah, blah, blah” and “Next on blah, blah, blah” with a few minutes of new blah, blah, blah wedged in between. Reality TV often never stops teasing and The News has become like…
Having just spent some concentrated time with my 7 and 3-year-old grandchildren, I can tell you that, contrary to their blustering resistance, most children, (and adults for that matter), prefer to have a set of clear-cut rules in place, if only, at times, to snicker at the thrill of knowingly…