It has been my habit in the past to begin my weekly dissertations in this space with amusing anecdotes and random thoughts blurted out from a brain long since “modified” by a habit of sleeping roughly 4 hours per night for many years. Instead, in order to jolt you into the content about to follow, [...]
Given the increasing incompetence in our society, I feel that with each passing day there are more jobs that I myself could perform. Yet there is one exception, and that would be the job of sports referee. It takes either a special level of off-the-chart arrogance regarding your own skills or a deep-seeded self-hatred to be a [...]
I stopped reading the local newspaper’s Op-Ed page, as well as viewing Sunday opinion shows, a long time ago. It wasn’t the constant back and forth between factions of opinion that turned me off. What irked me was the very idea of the people offering their opinions being regarded as “experts” simply by their presence in a certain [...]
I’m going to start out today’s post with a confession of a personal shortcoming. I am much more dynamic on paper than I am in person. When I discuss a subject face-to-face with people, I have a tendency to obsess on one topic, much to the detriment of a random listener. I tend to blurt out [...]
When I was growing up, there used to be a phrase for a person or a business enterprise that could be trusted to do the right thing. That phrase was “on the level”. In the grand scheme of things, my life experience to date is fairly short, so it is distressing to me that the [...]
I thought I’d begin today’s rumination by dispensing a bit of just-uncovered wisdom; having wide feet in and of itself does not guarantee that one is standing on steady ground. Allow me to offer one literal and one figurative example. This morning, I was making my usual run to purchase a 44-ounce unsweetened iced tea [...]
