If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Cheat… Way back in 1982 when I was an aspiring young Little League pitcher and my dad, who had never played competitive baseball in his entire life, was coaching my team, I remember a particularly painful loss and the invaluable lesson my father/coach/hero/role model taught me that fine Spring afternoon. […]
The American Justice System on Trial
The American Justice System on Trial Once upon a time, I believed in the United States justice system. In fact, I even went to law school based upon that enduring premise. Now, just stop your chortling and snickering; I’m serious. I truly felt like courts in America were generally fair and equitable distributors of blind […]
The Moral Hypocrisy of Trump Voters
The Moral Hypocrisy of Trump Voters Oh, my Republican friends, don’t say that I didn’t try to warn you. Way back in 2016 and again in 2020, I tried to caution you that if you disregarded all of Trump’s unabashed moral indiscretions and voted for that steaming pile of unprincipled dog manure that you would […]
Walking in Another’s Skin
Walking in Another’s Skin I’m going to start this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less with a public service warning: If you are one of the few regular viewers of the weekend morning news show, CBS Sunday Morning, make your way as soon as possible to your primary care physician and get your pulse […]
The Half-Full Glass of the Pandemic Economy
The Half-full Glass of the Pandemic Economy As I set to writing this week’s installment of TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Lessabout the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought that I should ask my readers which they wanted to hear first: the good news or the bad news. For when it comes to […]
It’s Not Easy Being Green…or Black…or Gay…
It’s Not Easy Being Green…or Black…or Native American…. I absolutely love The Muppets. Maybe I just have a thing for banjo-playing frogs, but one of my favorite childhood memories was ending weekends by gathering round the television on Sunday evenings and watching the latest episode of The Muppet Show. It ran for just 5 seasons […]
Don’t Rush to Cheer Limbaugh’s Death
This will probably come as a shock to absolutely no-one, but I was never really a fan of Rush Limbaugh. In fact, I hated every ounce of his corpulent, self-indulged ass and felt an uncontrollable urge to punch him squarely in his rotund piehole just about every time he opened it. But when I learned […]
Who Lit This Dumpster on Fire?
Who Lit This Dumpster on Fire? So this is where we are at as a country, huh? Well, that precipitous decline into moral bankruptcy and societal anarchy sure didn’t take long, now did it? What we witnessed last Wednesday was the tragic demise of American exceptionalism (if such a thing ever really existed) and the […]
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? I’m going to start this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less with a candid acknowledgement that my title for this week’s column represents a false dichotomy. I’m really not sure the whole vaccine debate can be summarily wrapped up into those two starkly different choices. In fact, by […]
Further Down the Rabbit Hole
Further Down the Rabbit Hole “‘Will you walk into my Parler?” said the Spider to the Fly.“The Spider and the Fly”, Mary Howitt, 1829 (I may have changed spelling to match the stupidity of others) So I may or may not have been having a somewhat contentious debate with a conservative friend of mine on […]