“The world doesn’t make any sense to me any more. What’s going on? There are babies lying around in the streets. There are people living in boxes. There are people ready to shoot you if you look at them. And we’re getting used to it. The world is so nuts, it makes me wonder about …
In January 1980, something I had hoped would last a lifetime … didn’t. I had just turned 30, and my marriage ended. Things had been crummy between us for more than a year, and my wife said we needed to separate for a while but maybe things would work out down the line. They didn’t. …
Say you’re the governor of a state. Your political party’s bumbling left millions of your voters without electricity, heat or water during a horrific winter storm. Several dozen of them died, a number that’s minuscule in a state of nearly 30 million people. Unless, of course, you’re one ohem or you love someone who’s one …
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That’s the way it was during the days of the Old West, or at least in 1962 when John Ford made “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” As for now, not so much. We’ve got people making up stories out of whole cloth to make themselves appear …
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Some years back, I was living in California and our granddaughter was visiting us for the first time. She didn’t come alone. Madison, who now goes by Artemis, was just two months old. I mention this story because I had just seen in the paper that the oldest woman in America had died at the …
Did you know that one luxury hotel in the District of Columbia raised its prices for Wednesday and Thursday night this week? Yes, that one. And when I tell you why, you’ll see that it’s just another example of Donald Trump milking his followers for every dollar he can get out of them. This Thursday …
I think my wife and I are getting ready to stick our toes in the water again. We haven’t gone anywhere that wasn’t necessary since Thanksgiving 2019, when we visited our daughter Pauline and her family in Guatemala City. Since then we’ve been out of commission for two different reasons. First was my wife’s emergency …
The crowd pictured above is almost certainly not a Black Lives Matter rally. It’s not a rally for women’s rights, or for better treatment of transgendered tea=ens. It’s certainly not fans of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. It could be a social gathering of incels — we might be on the right tracks …
I got one helluva shock a few minutes ago. I sat down to write a piece about how if the White House Correspondents Dinner is the “Nerd Prom,” as others have called it, then CPAC, which I call “Whitestock,” must be something worse. I was thinking maybe the “Incel Ball.” So I looked at the …
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a serious person? If you said “become a figure of ridicule,” you nailed it. The terms we have to describe it — jerkoff, jagoff, etc. — don’t really get it done. Anything with “jerk” in it that’s not Jamaican food or a weightlifting term implies a certain …
