SACRIFICE ONE EYE TO BLIND YOUR NEIGHBOR?
Four times in my lifetime America has discovered helping someone helped everyone. In Bulgaria, you can hear an ugly story of neighborly distrust. A farmer discovered a bottle, rubbed it […]
FALL AND RISE OF GRANDRE MAN
How I stopped searching for glory and found it barefoot on the lawn Like many men, I prefer the heroic version of my life. Triumph. Audacity. Grandeur. Master of the Universe stuff. When I look backward, I do not see one complete life. I see something more like the Andes—a […]
FORGET THE 250TH CELEBRATION. FOLCLUS ON THE 3.5 billionth.
Your ancestors who arose from the non-living deserve a shout-out. Scribes, anchors, columnists, and other professional worriers are already preparing us for the national agony of America’s 250th anniversary. Washington, D.C. will be draped in bunting, speeches, security barriers, and anxiety. There will be solemn talk about the reflecting pool, […]
VOLCANIC VENT TO LOST CAR KEYS
YOU’VE EVOLVED SO MUCH. COME SO FAR. WHERE’S THE KEYS? FIND THOSE DAMN KEYS? I was rebuked by ChatGPT recently. While writing about homo sapiens, our allegedly superior brains, and […]
WE THE SUCCESSORS TO PLATO LEONARDO AND GALILEO
We aspire to be rational, fact driven humans who occasionally submit to emotional pulls on our decision-making process. No. Not even remotely true. We’ve always been emotional beings who […]
BUSTED IN PROVIDENCETOWN
BUSTED IN PROVINCETOWN Octogenarian vice ring smashed by iPhone shutdown error Last night the Provincetown police pounded on our hotel room door. This is never encouraging. Police officers rarely arrive […]