The New York Times seems to have caught on to what I have been saying all along: that candidate Hillary Clinton has a Lisa Simpson problem. For those of us […]
Comics - Reviews - TV
Super Fly! Where Daredevil Went Wrong
I’m a longtime Daredevil fan. I liked the comic: “Daredevil: The Man Without Fear” in the 80’s and 90’s. It had ninja action, the ‘blind radar’ shtick, acrobatics, a dark, urban severity. […]
Comics - Commentary
The Hero We Deserve
Recently this piece in The Guardian caught my attention. In it, Alan Moore, notable author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and all-around high priest of counterculture and geekdom, is […]
Humor - Short
A Sample of Editorial Cuts Suggested By The Travel Channel’s Standards & Practices Dept. to the Producers of “Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern”
“My translator tells me that your grandparents referred to human meat as ‘Long Pig?’ What. He did.” (Papua New Guinea) “What effect would you say the depleted uranium has had […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Short
Who Speaks for Us?
It occurred to me some years ago that I didn’t know what neither Saddam Hussein nor Kim Kardashian’s voice sounded like. This led me to conclude that if you don’t […]
Commentary - Short
And Now A Brief Aside on Predicting The Future.
I wrote a blogging application sometime around 2004 or 2005. Prior to launching it on our Social Media site, my boss at the time asked me, what should we call […]
Commentary
Am I Racist: Trump Edition
Given the recent Trump phenomenon, the political-correctness backlash, and the counter-charge that liberals routinely and unfairly deploy the accusation that conservatives are racist, I wanted to take minute to grapple […]
Fiction
New Short Story!
Her eyes narrowed like a cat’s. “You won’t be removed. I have it on good authority they find you too valuable to take out of the game entirely. But you […]
Commentary - Politics
Gun Control, Part II
Another week, another shooting, another month, another mass shooting, another quarter, another particularly startling mass shooting. I’m actually writing this at the end of a week where we managed TWO […]
Commentary - Politics
What Would I Have to Believe?
[Originally written August 2014] Having spent more that 15 minutes on the internet, you’ve been danger-close to stupid opinions. We’ve all had the uncanny experience of watching a close friend, […]