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The Top 10 Christmas Movies of All-Time By this point, we are all quite familiar with the age-old debate that has wracked human society for generations now: Does Die Hard constitute a Christmas movie? And for all of you out there who still somehow want to answer this in the affirmative, go screw yourselves. Clearly, […]
You Can’t Fix Stupid (But You Can Elect it to Congress) I have tried to refrain from touching on any of the plethora of preposterously stupid things that have come out the engorged pie holes of either Marjorie “I Validate Blonde Stereotypes” Taylor Greene or Lauren “I Make $ Peddling Islamaphobia” Boebert, tried not to […]
What I’m Thankful for: 2021 Edition I’ll be the first person to acknowledge that if you go digging into the closet of historical backstory on many of the holidays and traditions that we find so heart-warming and endearing, there is some seriously messed up stuff in there. Let’s start with Christmas for example. For all […]
The Skateboard is Mightier than the Sword A few weeks back, I personified the pent-up rage of angry white men in the humorous characterization of a rabid raccoon feverishly protecting a steaming pile of trash. Well, welcome to the real world where Kirk Rittenhouse, the 17-year old psychopath who shot and killed two harmless, unarmed […]
The Double-sided Sexism of Denying Family Leave I have to hand it to Joe Lonsdale. You see, before my girlfriend brought my attention to this slimy, narcissistic dope-on-a-rope, I didn’t know it was even technically possible to blatantly insult and demean both genders within the exact same statement. I don’t mean a generalized slur against […]
The Red Herring Fueling White Rage As I watched the election results roll in the other night, I thought to myself, You know, there sure are a lot of angry white men in this country. Admittedly, that thought was soon followed by, I think tonight is Taco Tuesday, so I am not sure how much […]
Layla and Other Assorted Racism As a music aficionado, I can often recall with utter clarity the moment when I heard a particular album for the first time. There was the idyllic camping trip where I stayed up all night with my high school friends listening to the Allman Brothers Eat a Peach or sitting […]
The Never-Ending Quest for the Latest and Greatest A friend of mine recently asked me if I had already gotten the new iPhone 13. When I replied that I was unaware that there were now more incarntations of the iPhone than there were Friday the 13th movies, they quickly surmised that I had not. I […]
Make Your Kids Do Something…and Then Don’t Give a Damn In last week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I discussed embracing the things we suck at. For me, one of those things includes ball sports. You’ll note that does not, by sheer technicality, include hockey, which is played with a flat-shaped disc called a […]
Embrace What You Suck At We all can remember back to our elementary school days when some well-meaning teacher told our class that all of us are good at something. And they were right. We may not have realized what it was at the time, and some of us may still be searching for exactly […]
