Pretending to Be Offended Would somebody please tell me when we all became so damn sensitive about absolutely everything? Just when did we forget to laugh at life’s little absurdities every once in a while and recognize that satire encourages a healthy dialogue on the stereotypes it relies upon? The recent Simpsons controversy surrounding their […]
Dancing on Bill Cosby’s Grave This past Thursday, a Pennsylvania jury found Bill Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004. But please excuse me if I am not standing up pumping my fist into the air and […]
Putin Flexing His Muscles Well, hi there boys and girls! Last week, we scared ourselves silly fretting about the looming danger of privacy invasions sparked by Facebook’s all-encompassing data collection on millions of its users. I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve been barely able to sleep all week, what with all those […]
Does Facebook Know You Better Than Your Own Mother? Do you use the internet? Yeah, me too. Which is precisely why the recent revelations regarding data trolling and Russian hacking have me just about set to soil my knickers. This is some scary stuff, folks: worthy, I’d say, of yet another two part series in […]
Fed Up With All Those Hidden Fees If you know me well, you know I hate to fly. I don’t mind the craziness of the airport, or having to stay seated for several hours at a time with little legroom, or even the loud children who always seem to have a propensity for banging the […]
There Must Be a Test for That Well, the kids and I just got back from a week of Spring Break in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and for those of you who care, we had a lovely time, thank you very much. We visited Mt. Rushmore, walked through one of the world’s largest […]
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past Like most people, I don’t check my mailbox much anymore. I mean, what’s the point? The only people who still use the U.S. Post Office to contact me are catalog shillers and ex-girlfriends, neither of whom I really have much interest in hearing from. But I also don’t necessarily […]
Quincy Jones Is One Bad Mammajamma I love characters. Having come in contact with so many different personalities over the course of my years in education, I have a distinct predilection for people who are truly unique, the type of people that wear their personas right on their coat sleeves and don’t give a rat’s […]
Might Elon Musk Save Us All? My son is only eleven, but he already knows what car he wants when he turns sixteen: a Tesla convertible. Yeah right, kid- good luck with that one. Still, I have to sit back and appreciate his reasoning. You see, Elon Musk is something of a hero to him. […]
When is Enough Enough? I like listening to other people, even when they are horribly, inconceivably misguided. I pride myself on truly hearing both sides of a debate, though I may be resolute in my position. I know that’s somewhat hard to believe coming from someone who writes an opinion column on a weekly basis, […]
