Protesting. While reading this op-ed on “Why do whites oppose the NFL protests?“, I’m reminded of the scene in Arrested Development where Lindsay is herded into exercising her 1st Amendment Rights in […]
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Puerto Rico
Low hum hmmmm. Thinking of Puerto Rico as Hurricane season rolls around. Again. Aquí vive una escritora! Here lives a writer. When Ann, my friend retrieved this decorative tile from the island of Vieques, […]
Everybody Lies!*
Much has been made of Prescedense Trump’s propensity, proclivity* to state “demonstrable falsehoods” or flat-out lie. We, the disillusioned, search for the reason the 2016 election swung the way it did to […]
How times change: Rocket Arugula
Me, a child looking at some green salady thing Mom was dishing up: “What’s this?” Mom: Rocket. Mom goes on to explain she found it growing wild between the garden and the […]
Know s*it Sherlock! The 3.5 % solution!
For love of wordplay, the phrase “no s*it¹ Sherlock” recently resolved itself into “know s*it Sherlock.” Know s*it. ‘Know’ the homonym of ‘no’ turns the snarky phrase “no s*it Sherlock” into a cheer for […]
Time-lapse: Happy Mother’s Day!
Well, I am a people watcher reporting from the bleacher seats! And last weekend I watched a crowd of graduates which included Frood,¹ process their way into an auditorium, receive their diplomas, […]
At wealth’s end …
Monday morning over coffee and I am waving goodbye to Jeff Bezos who has walked so far out on the pier of net worth that he is crossing his own ocean and […]
The comfort of old media!
Well, maybe it is not the comfort of old media — see also this post on the New Hampshire Gazette — but the remembrance of uncomfortable history, the recollection of past events […]
The joy of old media!
Today in the age of news that precedes the facts, I would like to take a moment to celebrate The New Hampshire Gazette, “The Nation’s Oldest Newspaper (TM), founded in 1756 by Daniel […]
The problem with human resources.
Human Resources. On page 289 of the hardcopy of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, I tripped across the following description of Russian life in 1938 in a footnote: “*Stripped of their […]
