When is Enough Enough? I like listening to other people, even when they are horribly, inconceivably misguided. I pride myself on truly hearing both sides of a debate, though I may be resolute in my position. I know that’s somewhat hard to believe coming from someone who writes an opinion column on a weekly basis, […]
Is This Really a Sport? Well, not everything that comes around every four years is painful and repulsive. Unlike our presidential elections, which take place on a four year cycle but seem to be never-ending trials of endurance and suffering only to produce a “winner” that really seems more like the lesser of two evils, […]
Discrediting the Institutions You would think that we would be used to this by now. You would think that by this point we would would have learned that every time you think the Trump administration has hit rock bottom, they pull some ridiculous nonsense you could not have even imagined and thus set the bar […]
But I Want It Now I am not a patient man. I was reminded of this fact recently when I started to teach my daughter how to play guitar. As I heard the distorted twangs that echoed from her instrument as she haphazardly attempted to strum a G chord, I was harkened back to my […]
Me Too, Me Too!!! You ever sit down at the computer and know you are about to write something that is really going to piss some people off? But you write it anyway. Why? Because sometimes it just needs to be said. Yeah, that’s how I’m feeling right about now. It’s not that I’m trying […]
Not Reading is Killing Our Democracy As an English teacher for fifteen plus years, I am uniquely qualified to attest to just how little American students read. It’s pathetic. Throughout my tenure in education, I was presciently aware of how few students had actually read the given homework assignments for my class; I didn’t even […]
Price Gouging Your Eyes Out I am going to start this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less with a traveler’s advisory for all frequent drivers of the I-70 mountain corridor outside of Denver, Colorado: Don’t stop for gas at the Conoco station located just off the exit for Copper Mountain. You’ll know which one […]
What the World Could Live Without Part II, More New Year’s Resolutions from a Hopelessly Deranged Mind When I started writing TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less a couple of years back, I wrote a column of New Year’s resolutions that posited a list of things the world would be better off without. You know, […]
The End of the Internet As We Know It So you like the internet, do you? Well, you’re about to like it a whole lot less. Despite a disturbingly apathetic and uniformed public, the internet as you know it is set to change dramatically, and it’s all because of three stooges who form the majority […]
Droning out the Drones My dad is truly an amazing, giving human being, but damn if he isn’t just about the worst Christmas shopper the world has ever known. His heart is always in the right place, as he diligently inquires about suggestions for every person he has to buy a gift for. If my […]
