This has been a very busy week for me, what with all the Channukah shopping, the excitement of Spider Man finally starting previews on Broadway and, of course, all of those WikiLeaks files to read. I’ve barely had time to pay attention to the news other than the war in…
Some very bright person suggested, (to paraphrase), ‘knowing what you don’t know is equally if not more important than knowing what you think you do.’ This, of course, is in direct contrast to the idiot who coined, “what you don’t know can’t hurt you.” We have ceded responsibility to deal…
Sure, I’m upset about Bristol Palin making the finals. Not that I give a rat’s ass about who wins or loses on Dancing With the Stars or American Idol or America’s Got Talent; those popularity contests are just slightly more representative of what they purportedly celebrate than say, theGrammy’s or the Emmy’s. What upsets me is that of…
Dear Barry, Sorry I haven’t written in a while. Like so many other Americans, I have grave concerns that you’ve not been listening. As one who so completely supported the stated ideals in your run for the Presidency, I have empathy, (if little patience), for the weightiness of your office. …
The only thing I’m feeling sure about is that we have passed the point of no return in the downward spiral of what causes great world powers to become storied entries in history books. Unfortunately, since there probably won’t be such things as books in the next decade or so…
I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to disengage from the election circus. All of the hopefulness that accompanied the Obama victory of 2008 has been systematically dismantled and replaced by a pervasive agenda, scripted and presented by the dumbest among us. Au contraire, you may reply. There are some big-brained, well-funded political and corporate…
Life was obviously better before the InterNet. We all had much more time each day for other frivolous activity, (real surfing rather than the sedentary kind), Wikipedia and -leaks thankfully didn’t exist, Spam© was still mystery meat, I had a wonderful, flirtatious telephone relationship with my cool travel agent, (what’s-her-name),…
I was just finishing the last bite of a yummy cheese enchilada when the last of the Chilean miners reached the surface. The fact that the hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant’s TV was tuned to a Spanish language station didn’t make the drama any less emotionally compelling. (I would, however, have to…
I imagined that today’s alignment of tens would have prompted clever marketers around the globe to come up with all manner of celebratory events. However, Googling all related ‘ten’ combinations did not mine many hits. In Saratoga Springs, some shyster preacher is trying to fill SPAC for a 10-10-10 prayer…
I remember that the first time I read Marshall McLuhan’s famous discourse, one of those evolutionary bells went off in my head. It was the 60s and color TV was still relatively new, radio was still more than drive-time ranters and ten-song, force-fed playlists, newspapers and magazines were mostly written…