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The Things Ya See …
Seen on the way home from teaching middle school social studies Friday afternoon: 1. A minivan with New York license plates and the bumper sticker, ‘I’d Rather Be In Ann Arbor’ and … 2. The happiest dog in the world, riding in a car with gleeful abandon. He was quite sad when they had to…
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They Have Filthy Filthy Minds
This pretty much sums up the hypocritical state of the Empire. « Says Mike Reiss, a writer for The Simpsons »: ‘The rules governing what we may or may not say are a little hard to follow. This year, for instance, Howard Stern’s trash talk lost him six radio stations … then gained him nine…
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Food for Thought
From Daniel Boorstin’s 1961 classic The Image: Nowadays everybody tells us that what we need is more belief, a stronger and deeper and more encompassing faith. A faith in America and what we are doing. That may be true in the long run. What we need first and now is to disillusion ourselves. What ails…
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