Joe Manchin is a DINOsaur: Democrat in Name Only Do you remember when you used to believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? Republicans with integrity? Those were blissful years, weren’t they? But then you grew up and realized that Santa is but a myth your parents told you to make you […]
I am not a big dude. Clocking in at a modest 5’8” tall and a hardly robust 160 lbs., I know that there are many folks out there, including many women, that weigh considerably more than I do. And I am ok with that. After all, when it comes to a night out on the […]
Vaxed, Waxed, and Relaxed, Baby Vaccinated and it feels so good…. Oh yeah, that’s right, America! Thanks to the success of three effective Covid vaccines, we are beginning to see signs of normalcy popping up all around us, like Spring blossoms pushing their way through the latent soil. With 37.8% of the population fully vaccinated […]
Cancelling Truth Damn you, Republicans! Damn you for forcing me to defend Liz Cheney. I’m talking Liz Fucking Cheney here, the same woman who voted with Donald Trump 92.9% of the time and was given a 91% rating by the Heritage Action and CPAC committees. The same Liz Cheney who the Lugar Center ranked as […]
50 Shades of Grey Hair I’m just going to come right out and say it: I am turning 50 later this week. While some of you out there may have been noting the ever-encroaching gray in my hair and found yourself surprised that I had not actually passed that milestone quite some time ago, I, […]
Grateful to Be a Deadhead In reflecting back on my years of listening to the Grateful Dead, there are many fond memories I have of the experience and many more that, for reasons I shall decline to explicate here, I am no longer able to recall. But music, especially in the world of recorded audio, […]
Are You Working Virtually or Virtually Working? Our society is set to undergo a seismic transformation. I’m talking the kind of fundamental alteration of day-to-day reality that social scientists point to centuries later and say “Yup, that’s when the world changed.” The advent of the printing press. The dawn of the Industrial Age. The first […]
Famous for Being Famous Much to my chagrin, and the unmitigated amusement of my children, I am set to turn 50 in just a couple of months. That’s right, Craigers is turning the big 5-0. Which leaves me wondering- how did that happen? When did old age sneak up behind me and club me over […]
They Are Not the Problem I am horrible at fixing things. I don’t mean that as a metaphor. I mean that I am genuinely terrible at any sort of home improvement or repair. My friends can vouch for me on this one. This past Father’s Day, my ex-wife abetted my children in the purchase of […]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Cheat… Way back in 1982 when I was an aspiring young Little League pitcher and my dad, who had never played competitive baseball in his entire life, was coaching my team, I remember a particularly painful loss and the invaluable lesson my father/coach/hero/role model taught me that fine Spring afternoon. […]
