MAGA Virus: A Contemporary Pandemic of History

Night at the Museum of AmericaWhat are you up to today? Six years ago, in the fall of 2020, I asked my readers how they were doing. More specifically: how were they handling pandemic isolation? Does anyone remember the optimistic theory that if we all stayed home for 30 days, we’d be back to workContinueContinue reading “MAGA Virus: A Contemporary Pandemic of History”

Transform Your Workday with Motivational Songs (aka: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

I want some internet at American speed
A mocha steak with a side of potatoes
TV that takes me from Tuesday to need
and a two hour flight to Moscow

Whisky Tango Foxtrot: Love is in the Air

This last week, when the Syrian rebels freed prisoners from Assad’s notorious dungeons and a celebration broke out in the streets of Damascus, I thought about the romantic rescue scene in the 2016 Tina Fey movie Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

Surviving a Life-Altering Accident and Finding Strength in the Idiocracy Era

He took off his black RUSH concert shirt. Gave it to the lady, “Here”.  She began to dab my head with it.  My voice left me. I was unable to yell, “NO! I don’t want sweaty rocker sweat in my open wound!” but I thought it.  She ignored all basic first aid protocols, using a crossing motion, and she baptized me in the name of Lee, Peart, and Lifeson.  Brushing off blood and gravel from my face.