Who Makes What and Why As a general principle, I find Parade magazine to be about as vapid and mindless as a Marjorie Taylor Greene dissertation on the subject of Jewish Space Lasers. Now for those of you who do not know what I am talking about, Parade is a trite weekly publication inserted into […]
Can Self-Interest Save the World? The world is a naturally simple and beautiful place. Then we come along and screw it all up by thinking far too much about it. I was reminded of this truism recently when discussing Game Theory with my 13 year-old daughter. And if anything will remind you that you’re thinking […]
420 Lessons We Can Learn from Legalizing Weed If you’re wondering why I am a bit late publishing this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, allow me to apologize for my malfeasance. See, I fully intended to pen this column last night, on the eve of the 4/20 holiday when stoners from around the […]
How Citizens United Divided Citizens My daughter has recently been studying U.S. Supreme Court cases in her Civics class and asked me what I thought was the worst decision ever rendered by the nation’s highest court. There certainly have been some doozies. There’s the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling that defined the notion of “separate but […]
The 34 Reasons We All Have to be Grateful For Last Thursday, I woke up and it was like Christmas morning with 34 beautifully-wrapped presents just waiting to be opened. That’s because Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg doled out Trump indictments like Santa Claus on an egg nog bender with 34 felony counts for falsifying […]
If We Shadows Have Offended “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an […]
Why Baseball is a Dying Sport Many.of the most vivid and cherished memories from my youth revolve around going to baseball games with my dad. We would park, probably illegally, in the Boston University residential neighborhood, and make our way over to Landsdowne Street where a host of New England characters (otherwise known as Massholes) […]
A Throwaway Society This week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less was inspired by a drive through the mountains of the Colorado high country. Traveling through the small metropolis of Gunnison on our way to Crested Butte, my girlfriend and I drove by a seemingly innocuous sight that somehow sparked my curiosity…. “Hey, did you […]
Lady Madonna- See How They Run When I heard the recent uproar about the new look Madonna unveiled at the Grammy’s, I looked at my Swatch Watch to check out what year it was, thinking I must have slipped into a hot tub time machine and been transported back to 1986. But then I saw […]
The Staggering Costs of Government Lotteries What would you do with two billion dollars? All I know is that if I had won the record-setting payout for Powerball in November of last year, there would be a conspicuous run on Skittles and high-end tequila. Although the real answer lies in paying a whole lot of […]
