“…and its 1,2,3 what are we fightin for?don’t ask me i don’t give a damn, the next stop is Vietnam,and its 5,6,7 open up the pearly gates. Well there ain’t…
“Far out, groovy, outasite, you’re trippin’, stay high and fly.” I think I made that last one up. But it fits. We had our own language back then, we being…
Trigger Warning: This column may make you sad—or worse. I can’t get this question out of my mind: What would our world be like if Kamala Harris had won? I…
Petey Hegseth is probably responsible for the insipid naming: Operation Epic Fury. It fits his tough guy stance. A better naming would have been Epic Fail or Epic White Man’s…
One: Quit reading the news scrolls. The news will only depress you. And mostly there’s nothing you can do about it. Two: Go for a walk. Or do anything out…
I wanted to take a break from writing about the orange monster, but he just won’t get out of my head. The man ruins everything—even the Olympics—with his small mind…
And a dangerous one I didn’t watch the ‘state of the union’ address. Bev and I never even considered it. We knew it would be awful and ugly, which by…
I watch too much TV. And I’m not ashamed of it. Some medical professionals claim that watching too many hours of television is bad for your brain, that the gray-matter…
It’s time to stop pretending we can all get along. The divide has become too deep, and too mean. I’ve never been one to “turn the other cheek.” All that…
I knew I was being played. It was the journals they were after. The aim was to score a free notebook, not to be in a writing group. What I…
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