Take a photo of somebody from an aboriginal tribe. That’s if you can find an aboriginal tribe anymore that isn’t into rap music, or opening a casino. Take a little…
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If you can’t think of something nice to say about someone, then say nothing at all. (Old Proverb) If you can’t think of something nice to say about someone,…
Remember Bea Arthur? She was the wife in a successful sit-com of several years ago who was the 1970s representation of feminism on television. She was sort of…
Ryan’s zits can barely be discerned in the screen glow from the 20-inch monitor. He peers into it with an intense gaze of concentration; his wrist muscles flexing beneath…
These days, with so much information and opinion available online, I have pared my magazine subscriptions down to a half-dozen. But there was in need of a twelve-step program…
A dear old friend of mine enjoys whipping up descriptions of what he likes to imagine went on in the Oval Office, renamed the “Oral Office,” between Clinton and Lewinsky.…
In 1997 I bought a tattered old postcard from a street vendor in Hong Kong. Its postal cancellation mark reads July 1, 1907. Addressed in faded ink to…
Super Bowls are like Woodstock for the six-pack-four-wheeler set. Attendance at one is something of a haj , an attendance at the high altar of American pro sports. This most…
It’s that time of the year again. Yes, Christmas,Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and all that. But also Bowl Games. Bowl games, particularly the Rose Bowl, instantly evoke a reverie of lying…