SENIORS, RETURN TO THE YOUTH WORLD
BROWNIE BOY’S ROADKILL — RUN OVER BY THE SNEAKER STREAKER Listen up, fellow octogenarians. If you feel the “walls are closing in,” that’s not fate — it’s wallpaper. Turn off […]
REICHSTAGE FIRE VS. CHARLIE KIRK CRITICAL DIFFERENCES
1933 GERMAN REICHSTAG PARLIAMENT BUILDING IN FLAMES Our nation is polarized today, with democracy under stress. A college friend wrote to me:“This is a repeat of 1933. Violence destroyed Germany’s parliament building and its fragile Weimar Republic.” Pallela to the U.S. today? Yes.Causes for concern? Certainly.But there are also decisive, […]
YOUR DNA: A LUXURY BUILT ON SCUM
Forget the universe. Forget James Webb’s sparkly deep-space selfies. That cosmic fireworks show is so far beyond our puny cranial RAM that even if we doubled our IQs, it’d be […]
PRINCE CHARMING, PRINCE ANDREW AND I NOTICE WOMEN’S FEET
Back in the Truman administration, Mom read me the Cinderella story about a prince who brought his entire kingdom to a screeching halt to track down a woman who lost […]
KNEELING BEFORE MY HERO (AND CURBSTONES)
Call it irony, call it painful justice, but watch out for what you hate. The MBTA guys usually get clobbered in the press—for delays, mechanical failures, and budgets that balloon like overfed whales. To suggest that any of them might be heroes sounds like a setup line in a […]
FUTURE OF MANKIND-WE’VE SEEN THE FART FILLEDFILM BEFORE
“Hey Hughston- You got a problem down there\ lHumans like to think they’re the crowned species of Earth — genius overlords with Wi-Fi, air fryers, and the ability to schedule […]