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The Sleazies The 1st Annual Cabinet Awards Most Incompetent: This was a very difficult selection, as so many of the members qualified. But after careful consideration, the one cabinet member…
I’d wager even his base knows who the above headline refers to. The man is completely out of control. Snapping out endless lies in a vain attempt to cover his…
“Anyone who survives childhood has enough to write about for the rest of their lives.” Flannery O’Connor I’ve always found comfort in the above quote. I don’t think it applies…
I told myself to take a break from thinking about the insane clown. But it doesn’t work. I can do it for an hour or two. Yesterday I went surfing…
A good friend and fellow writer asked me (and others) for a list of my three favorite books. Since I primarily read and write fiction, and taught American Lit for…
I was having a conversation with my daughter, Jessie, when, as is unfortunately the norm in all conversations these days, the talk turned toward politics and the crew of spineless…
Yes, It Matters I’m a skeptical kind of guy. It’s in my Eastern European DNA—the Cossacks are never far from the door. And that old glass half-empty or half-full characterization…
Yes, it still exists. As the world appears to around us, and our president drags us closer and closer to the abyss, I find myself ever more in need of…
It drives me crazy, as a Jewish person, that trump and the republican flunkies attack our elite universities with the excuse that those institutions are anti-Semitic. Not to mince words—that…
This has been a miserable 14 months for our country, no doubt about it. All of the institutions and norms of democracy have been under attack by the far-right wing…
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