Clik here to view.
Glad Tidings and Misgivings
I’m an atheist from a Jewish family and have celebrated Christmas my entire life. In my childhood home, Hannukkah meant watching my mother search for our menorah for eight days while the Christmas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unintelligent by Design
Since the State of Missouri decided to take up this hogwash this week, I thought I’d re-post an old piece of mine on the subject. There is nothing intelligent about the so-called Theory of Intelligent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tilting at Wordmills
This morning, a friend sent me a message asking if anonymize is the verb form of anonymous; and my first impulse was to say that no such verb exists, other than perhaps some corporate neologism. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Words I Don’t Use – Memorial Day 2012
I am the father of three and would probably be defined by most people as a liberal (although I generally reject that term these days), yet our eldest child wants to be an officer in the U.S. Navy. He...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Moving Target
Greetings! I want to thank everyone who has been following this blog with an interest in (or bone to pick with) my writings on digital-age issues, piracy, et al. I never quite intended to make this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Discussion continued . . .
To those who have visited this site to read, discuss, or even complain about posts relating to digital age issues, I have moved that conversation to a new site called The Illusion of More. Please...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coming Soon!
Coming to theaters this Fall, moviegoers get to choose between two radically different, yet equally psychotic views of the United States. Culturally and artistically speaking, all I can say is that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
He Dreams of Being an Actor
This time last year, my short film Gone Elvis premiered at the FilmColumbia Film Festival along with two other shorts. One of these was called Dreaming American, written and directed by Lee Percy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Headless
You may rightly ask, what is Wasington Irving’s famous villain doing in a 4th of July parade? The real answer is that the school master (Jesse Merwin c.1809) of Kinderhook was supposedly the...
View Article
