If We Shadows Have Offended “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an […]
Why Baseball is a Dying Sport Many.of the most vivid and cherished memories from my youth revolve around going to baseball games with my dad. We would park, probably illegally, in the Boston University residential neighborhood, and make our way over to Landsdowne Street where a host of New England characters (otherwise known as Massholes) […]
A Throwaway Society This week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less was inspired by a drive through the mountains of the Colorado high country. Traveling through the small metropolis of Gunnison on our way to Crested Butte, my girlfriend and I drove by a seemingly innocuous sight that somehow sparked my curiosity…. “Hey, did you […]
Lady Madonna- See How They Run When I heard the recent uproar about the new look Madonna unveiled at the Grammy’s, I looked at my Swatch Watch to check out what year it was, thinking I must have slipped into a hot tub time machine and been transported back to 1986. But then I saw […]
The Staggering Costs of Government Lotteries What would you do with two billion dollars? All I know is that if I had won the record-setting payout for Powerball in November of last year, there would be a conspicuous run on Skittles and high-end tequila. Although the real answer lies in paying a whole lot of […]
FOX Snooze Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make. From this point forward, I will no longer utter the phrase FOX News. Instead, I will remove the “News” moniker and simply refer to that puppet show of fake journalism as FOX. After the revelations this past week from the Dominion voting machines trial, […]
Valentine’s Scrooge I am just going to come out and admit it right now- I am the Scrooge of Valentine’s Day. I am to the courtly lovers of February 14th what the Grinch was to Whoville on December 25th. Which is not to say that I do not appreciate the notion of love. Oh I […]
The Creation of An A.I. Adam I am going to confess right here and now that I did not write this week’s edition of TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. After all, why should I, when I can just get a computer to do it for me? With the proliferation of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence […]
Obstruction Junction- What’s Your Function? As a grammar teacher, I love showing my classes those old school Schoolhouse Rock videos that informed much of our knowledge in between Scooby Doo cartoons in the 1970’s. In fact, if it weren’t for Schoolhouse Rock, I’m pretty sure I, and many of my late 40’s/early 50’s brethren, wouldn’t […]
A Furry Situation I love when readers send me ideas for topics for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. More often than not, they tend to be clever and thoughtful suggestions. This past week, a friend of mine texted me and said that I should write about high school students who have started to “identify” […]
