Hey kids? Ever get sent to the principal’s office on a trumped up “ZERO TOLERANCE” charge? Well then, you didn’t have a sealed envelope in your pocket. You need to correct that misstep. There doesn’t even have to be anything in the envelope. Allow me to explain. You’re ushered to the principal’s office because you…

I should probably preface this as a form of full disclosure. As you can see from the date in the by-line, I wrote this a little over two months after 9/11 occurred. Susan Sontag, whom you may or may not remember (I envy you the latter), was in full blown rationalization/justification mode of the 9/11…

(I wrote this back in 2013. I’m not sure why. It might have been raining) Each year, the Nobel Prize committee divvies out awards to those that have excelled in a specific field. Economics, for example, was featured in Ron Howard’s version of A Beautiful Mind and based on Sylvia Nasar’s biography of John F. Nash Jr.…

I could see how the by-line above could be perceived as a bit suggestive. That was not my intention. “Hole” is not a euphemism. It’s a….well…hole. A big one. ________________________ Bangkok Street Collapses Into 50-Meter-Deep Sinkhole Amid Metro Construction https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/164229-bangkok-sinkhole-samsen-road-metro/ _________________________ For you metric challenged individuals out there. We’re talking about 165 feet deep. And…

If you mix a little meth in with the processed Hamster nuggets, they perform at a much higher level. AND, they can’t chew their way out of their plastic habitat, because….no teeth.