Have you ever washed your hands in a public restroom? You probably have. Did they have one of those motion activated taps? The ones that you wave your hands in front of, never quite sure if you’re waving in the exact right place or it’s out of order. Continue reading Volume XXV – July 2023
The other day I was roaming around the TV dial. For young people who may find that phrase unfamiliar, there was a time before now when everything wasn’t streamed on demand and consumed on social media; where people looked through a digital TV guide or changed channels incessantly to select something to watch from a list of live offerings. Continue reading Golf
I have here a draft opinion piece from Samuel Alito. It’s a follow-up to the piece he preemptively published in the Wall Street Journal to get ahead of the damning investigative article from ProPublica. Continue reading The Empty Seat Doctrine
EE Cummings said something like a poet is only a poet for a few minutes in their life; the rest of the time they are a would be poet. I have no idea if that’s something he actually said. I wrote it down sometime in 2019 and attributed it to him. Continue reading Volume XXIV – May 2023
We all, of course, know what it’s like when a wealthy friend insists on having us join them on a private jet trip to an exotic locale. We also know what it’s like when the same friend hosts us on their yacht. Continue reading Clarence Thomas and the Tuition Gambit
Do people still read? Will there be people in the future who will read? Are we too distracted, disinterested, content to bother? Do we need everything to talk to us, show us, wash over and drown out all senses in frivolous entertainment and spectacle? Continue reading Volume XXII – January 2023
The ferris wheel emits a swirl of light visible from all parts of the boardwalk. It stands sentinel over the crowds snaking in all directions, over chipped and fading hardwood, through the smell of fried fats and salt air, the screams and squeals of fun impending or reaching its conclusion. Continue reading Volume XXI – November 2022
He sat in his well-appointed dressing room and stared through himself in the mirror, not seeing his imperfect facial features and flabby body under his clothes, but instead the idealized version of himself concocted out of thin air, made into mythology, and sold to the masses as a genuine article of American entrepeneurship and social … Continue reading The Grifter
I remember the warm sun kissing my cheeks. I remember looking up into the vast blue sky in awe and wonder. Continue reading Volume XVIII – May 2022
Before we hear the same empty platitudes and our most recent national nightmare recedes into the background let’s take a moment to wrestle with the reality that is our culture and national identity at this moment in history. Continue reading Our National Nightmare
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