Where Will All the Teachers Go? Nobody ever teaches for the money; they teach in spite of the money. Trust me on this one. I have a B.A. from one of this country’s leading liberal arts colleges (thank you, Colgate University) along with an M.A. from the the University of Vermont, and in 20-plus years […]
America, Home of the Selfish You know what, folks? I take it all back. All that stuff I’ve said for years now about how Donald Trump did not represent the values of this country- yeah, I was simply wrong. Now, this column is not about that bloviating warthog, but I think it imperative at this […]
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 […]
The Half-full Glass of the Pandemic Economy As I set to writing this week’s installment of TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Lessabout the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought that I should ask my readers which they wanted to hear first: the good news or the bad news. For when it comes to […]
Giving Karens a Bad Name I’m going to start this week’s column by apologizing in advance to two very good friends of mine, both of whom are named Karen. We’ve all witnessed the proliferation of memes and derogatory comments that incorporate their name as a term of mockery and derision. Essentially, a “Karen” can best […]
Who Lit This Dumpster on Fire? So this is where we are at as a country, huh? Well, that precipitous decline into moral bankruptcy and societal anarchy sure didn’t take long, now did it? What we witnessed last Wednesday was the tragic demise of American exceptionalism (if such a thing ever really existed) and the […]
More New Year’s Resolutions I’m Sure Not to Keep Well, here we are, a full week into 2021, and so far at least, it has sucked less than 2020. Admittedly that is one hell of a low bar of expectations, but right about now, we will all take it. I’m not sure where you were […]
Jesus’s Christmas Wish List Well, ladies and gentleman, it’s time to break out the spiked eggnog and yuletide cheer. Time to don those dilapidated Santa hats and reindeer antlers all while adorning your house with more lights than a Vegas casino. The holidays are upon us. And though I do not ascribe to Christianity per […]
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? I’m going to start this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less with a candid acknowledgement that my title for this week’s column represents a false dichotomy. I’m really not sure the whole vaccine debate can be summarily wrapped up into those two starkly different choices. In fact, by […]
Further Down the Rabbit Hole “‘Will you walk into my Parler?” said the Spider to the Fly.“The Spider and the Fly”, Mary Howitt, 1829 (I may have changed spelling to match the stupidity of others) So I may or may not have been having a somewhat contentious debate with a conservative friend of mine on […]
