Year: 2013

Despite the fact that he has more academic alphabet soup behind his name than anyone else I know, including a doctorate in education, my baby brother often surprises me with the breadth of his common sense and the depth of his wisdom. A few years ago, I gave him a plaque bearing a quote from […]

As 2013 comes to a close, it’s as good a time as any to do some national soul searching. Polls show that three out of four Americans say the nation is on the wrong track. Disapproval ratings of our president are lodged above fifty percent. Clearly, whatever was generating the glow that got the most […]

This year, like all that preceded it, was packed with some incredibly stupid things. As we shake off 2013 and welcome our government master into the medical examination room (except those who can’t afford Obamacare, can’t get the website to work or lost the plans they liked), let’s take a look back at just some […]

There’s a reason why only 8 percent of New Year’s resolutions are kept: Too many of us make resolutions that lack resolve. “Resolve” is a powerful world. According to one dictionary, it means “to solve a problem, or to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a disagreement.” Bill Gates elaborated on the concept in […]

When I read that Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson made some horrible “homophobic” and “racist” comments for which liberals and gay activists were demanding the entertainment program be ripped from the flat screens of its 14 million fans, I was compelled to read the actual interview in GQ Magazine. It seems Phil is being crucified for […]

With apologies to “Howl” author Allen Ginsberg. Part I I saw the vast majority of three generations destroyed by madness, cursing unethical betrayed Spitting at frozen screens teasing 404 error waiting for the dusk of peak hours Onesie-clad hipsters sipping hot chocolate little marshmallows bobbing blinking hashtags in a sea of brown Who opened cancellation […]