More proverbs, mantras, aphorisms and precepts; because that’s what we need!
Boredom is a luxury.
We are experiencing technical difficulties. We appreciate your patience. That always works, right?
Drama feeds on itself while everyone else starves.
You cannot be the solution to other people’s problems.
Hare MAGA; Hare MAGA; MAGA…
“The left is attacking America,” Republican US Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley recently explained in an interview with Axios on HBO. “They’re saying that America is systemically oppressive and men are systemically responsible.”
Something to keep in mind when right-wing fake patriots and cynical centrists denigrate *the left* is that…
If you were around, in the United States of America back then, remember the war in Vietnam.
I grew up watching the Vietnam War and its protests and conflicts that tore Americans apart on television; and hearing the big kids in the neighborhood stressing over draft lotteries; and the statements…
I am not just a fan of the Green Bay Packers; I am a shareholder. The Packers are the only American publicly owned major league sports franchise. This is why, whenever the NFL Players Union seeks better terms from the National Football League, it is an act of bad faith…
Lawyers are not our problem, since Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher is an evil archetype. The trite punching bag of “mainstream media” is not our problem, mostly because there really is no longer any mainstream among the oceanic wetlands of infotainment culture.
Halloween has traditionally been the only holiday that the serious grown-ups hadn’t ruined yet. Not only the ubiquitous horror movies on TV and heightened weirdness in the music on the radio but in the encouragement allowing us to freak freely through the onset of the autumnal season.
From All Hallows…
Cold night last night. Thinking about the slow collapse of my circle of friends: one out in the street; another stuck in assisted living for the rest of their life; a few more stuck in their cycles of underemployment, spite and judgementalism. And me, too useless to be of any…
About halfway through his term in office, in 2018, the Trump administration announced the establishment of a Religious Liberty Task Force. As a campaigner and as president, Trump was outspoken (as if he really cared) about how much he hates it when Americans wish each other “Happy Holidays” at Christmastime…
Cross country drives and lodging in strange cities have always been about so much more than tourist traps and continental breakfasts in hotel lobbies. They are also opportunities to immerse oneself in the many flavors of culture through what Marshall McLuhan identified as the hot medium of radio.
I rediscovered…
