February 13, 2025

The U.S. is still alive

With all the shocking and surprising levels of stealing being exposed in our hapless government, it reminds me of a story an accountant told me. There’s a letter sent out to clients annually that is referred to as the ‘are you still alive...

December 3, 2021

We're being governed by imbeciles

A few weeks into Joe Biden's presidency, I had the following thought: how many articles, opinion pieces, and stories can be written and/or reported about one person's utter stupidity?  At some point, the sheer repetition of pointing...

November 21, 2021

The power of ridicule

There are entire segments of the population that don’t have a sense of humor. It’s often people in power and politicians who are particularly prone to not having a sense of humor, to the point where they feel that anyone who has one shoul...

March 12, 2018

This Is What Leadership Looks Like

Well, well, well.  So Mister Trump is going to meet with the leader of North Korea.  Stunning.  For someone who's universally castigated as being a clueless, all thumbs palooka of a leader, this fellow sure gets a lot of things don...

February 17, 2018

The Obama Portraits: But Is It Art?

When I was in art school, studying pretentious subjects alongside pretentious students taught by pretentious professors, we had the privilege of learning about basic forms of visual expression, expressed at their highest levels.  You can le...

December 27, 2017

Trump on the Rampage

Every so often in the history of achievement, you get what I call the “20-hour a day guy.”  These are people who survive on very little sleep, usually 3-4 hours a night, and spend the other 20 hours a day working at a feverish pace. ...

January 11, 2017

So much preachin’ going on

In our very modern, very secularized age, few people are still exposed to real preachers.  Preachers are people (usually men) who have an important message for those who haven’t heard it.  Or if they have heard it, they haven’t ...