Most of you probably don’t remember Buffalo Bob’s shout out, but for me, it always signaled the start of some special social interaction; the fact that it was between marionettes, (a pre-teen cowboy, a half-seal/half-duck Flub-a-dub, a blustery, old curmudgeon and a Dilly-Dally), and an assortment of odd humans, (Bob,…
I’m not into the misplaced nationalism behind the Olympic Games. Sure, the participating countries provide the fertile ground, but the competitors are obsessively dedicated individuals and the chants of “USA, USA!” or “Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!” take away from simply cheering for the best of the best. As an American, however, I…
It’s difficult for me, (although I’m hopelessly romantic), to not focus a cynical eye on today’s Hallmark©-ambushed “holiday”. Using both eyes to take in the bubbling magma that is 21st Century ideological enterprise, it is no wonder that we are adrift in a sea of tea bags. We have universally…
I had some very important things to say this week. However, I borrowed a friend’s Toyota and I am barreling down the NY State Thruway, completely out of control and unsure if blogging and texting are legally the same thing…I guess getting pulled over isn’t an option anyway. Hey! There’s…
Most of us, very lucky, post Great Depression Americans have enjoyed a long run of what we’ve come to believe is well-deserved prosperity. Surely, the “revolutionary” industrial and technological innovations of the 20th century, (in great part lead by Americans), were historic in their breadth of enhancing quality of life…
tran•sit (noun) – in the process of traveling or being transported from one place to another Last week I didn’t know much about Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. Well, as it turns out, she’s an arrogant, do-nothing politician and he’s an arrogant, do-less-than-nothing politician. Neither brought much to their campaigns in…
What a week, huh? A horrible tragedy in Haiti, (as if Haitians needed any further misery in their lives), the too-close-to-call race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts, (wouldn’t that be the epitome of irony if his seat is the one to stop health care reform?), reports of huge…
This week, the Department of Homeland Security, the innocuous agency with the mandate to protect us from further 9/11-like atrocities, responded to the failed Christmas terror attack at Detroit Metro airport by announcing a clampdown on travel originating in fourteen highly-suspect, (Muslim), countries. It also added hundreds of names to…
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starting to feel like a character in an Arthur C. Clarke or George Orwell novel. You know, one of those guys who gets caught up in the turmoil of conspiracy by human or AI villains hell bent on universal domination for no…