This evening I watched President Obama address the nation with regards to the debt ceiling controversy that has been raging in DC and beyond for a few months now. I also watched Speaker Boehner’s response to President. Both men made it clear that it’s the opposing party’s inability to compromise that is “holding the economy [...]
Bob Dylan turns 70 this month and tributes are pouring in from around the world. I figured it was only appropriate that I take a moment to put down some thoughts on the man who I point to as the most influential person in my life (parents not included of course). While these days my musical library [...]
These are things the elderly woman sitting beside me on my 3.5 hour flight from Houston (a stop-over on my flight from Philadelphia) told me. I won’t bother to detail which points I agree with or disagree with. The point of this exercise is that we are all bat-shit crazy, and should probably just learn [...]
“Never think too little of people; there’s always a little less to be thought.”
- ‘Sly Fox’ by Larry Gelbart
On Friday – in what was nothing short of a calculated, yet pathetic attempt to kill a huge news story by giving a press conference when most members of the media (including her own spokesperson) were [...]
