Can you feel the palpable excitement hanging in the air? That’s right, folks: The 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil are almost upon us. Less than 90 days away, the Olympics are Americans’ opportunity to embrace their country by wearing egregiously tacky apparel of national pride, fashion atrocities so horrific that they remind […]
Trauma on the Monkeybars: An Ode to Fear in the Media
I am not usually at a loss for subject matter. In fact, I generally feel like “writer’s block” is the excuse of hack professional writers who need an excuse for the weed and whiskey bender that lasts for a week, or at least as long as it takes them to binge watch Downton Abbey. […]
Oh the Profanity!
For those of you who are unaware, my uncle is also a writer, and a darn good one at that. Yes, my uncle Geoff has written a wonderful work, Scudder’s Gorge, that speaks poignantly about our potential for both violence and love towards our fellow human beings. In any case, I’m not just trying to […]
The Cognitive Dissonance of Sports Fandom
The Cognitive Dissonance of Sports Fandom So this is the second installment of my reaction to Curt Schilling’s recent firing by ESPN for an insensitive Facebook post Schilling made about transgenders in the wake of the new North Carolina bathroom law requiring that people use the bathroom corresponding to the gender delineation from their birth […]
How Public Outrage Killed Free Speech
How Public Outrage Killed Free Speech As I was driving around town this morning, two important news stories came across the radio (yes, I still listen to old fashioned commercial radio when driving). I had already been working on a blog this week centered around my love affair with the comma, but immediately knew that […]
How Internet Anonymity Created a Legion of Jerkbags
Let me start my diatribe this week by taking a moment to thank all of you for taking the time to read this nonsensical drivel. Seriously, when I go over the analytics to see how many people read TRUTH: IN 1000 WORDS or LESS each Tuesday and Friday, I am consistently amazed. Recently, the numbers […]
Election 2016: Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich
Election 2016: Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich? How did we come to this America? Is there anybody out there that really believes that this shit show of an election was what the founding father’s had in mind when they penned the Constitution? I’ve read it from beginning to end, even quite carefully a couple of […]
Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball?
Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball? You know what I’m not watching right now, even though I love sports and hail from the otherwise unnoteworthy state of Connecticut? That’s right, I just cannot bring myself to watching the women’s NCAA basketball championship, a certain victory for the University of Connecticut and yet one of the more […]
Your Kid Doesn’t Need a Damn Cellphone
Your Kid Doesn’t Need A Damn Cellphone I almost always laugh at the response I get when I tell people I am an only child. Folks usually just give me one top-to-bottom glance and suggest in a nonchalant voice, “Huh, I should have figured.” What is it that marks me so obviously as the byproduct […]
The Road Less Travelled, My Ass…
Made All the Difference, My Ass Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. We all know the Robert Frost poem, so much so that I didn’t even feel particularly compelled to cite the author or the title above. You don’t […]