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 […]
The Erosion of the National Civic Discourse I am going to start this week with an acknowledgment that should be patently obvious, but apparently has become suddenly unavoidable: TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less is an opinion column. It represents my personal perspective- nothing more, nothing less. Well, good, now that we have this mandatory […]
Why Baba O’Reily is the Greatest Rock Song of All-Time I’ve been putting this one off for awhile. Perhaps it’s because I’ve just had too many other pressing topics to write about. Perhaps it’s because something so purely subjective hardly seems the stuff for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. Or perhaps it’s simply because […]
Everything’s Definitely Not Better in Texas They like to say that everything is bigger in Texas. Well, there must be some truth in that postulation because if Gov. Greg Abbott and the men in the Texas state legislature think they have the right to tell women what to do with their bodies, they have balls […]
Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is If you really want to know what a particular society values, take a look at their federal budget. Oh, we can say we value this and value that, but in the end, it comes down to one of my mom’s favorite sayings, “Put your money where your mouth […]
Shame on Us for Not Shaming My students rarely believe me when I tell them this, but I was once a fat kid. When I was in 8th grade, I actually weighed more than I do now. And though my parents tried to reassure me with the euphemistic understanding that I was really just “pleasantly […]
