All Seriousness Aside
My wife, with mild trepidation, approved this missive. Mirage A Trois Marinating in the afterglow of my 40th birthday weekend, with the yard cleaned and the dishwasher on its fifth cycle, my wife and I shut out the lights and nestled together in bed. She had orchestrated an epic two days which had involved months […]
First pants. Then shoes. The wisdom of this core principle has successfully guided dressing practices since the dawn of pants and enjoys the rare distinction of almost complete bipartisan support. It’s also noteworthy, that since its inception, this adage has almost entirely eradicated all incidences of post traumatic dress disorder. Most important, the purity of […]
The doctor on call for my June 29 appendectomy happened to be a proctologist, one of the many random details that came rushing at me as my gurney careened toward the operating room. In the 15 minute Tsunami of activity that had taken place between determining my appendix was counting down to detonation and the looming surgery, I had barely begun to…
In the wake of the tragic cowardly attacks in NYC on Tuesday (10.31.2017), I have this vision of ISIS leaders monitoring American news outlets and once again gleefully shaking their heads with a combination of jubilation and disbelief. Unarmed innocent women, children and men killed or injured. “Shukran!” Major media outlets obsess and plaster […]
In October of 2017, I had a vision that Chief of staff John Kelly took a walk through Arlington Cemetery. To the haunting sound of a bugler playing Taps, he stepped among and then beyond the stones of some of “the finest men and women on earth,” stopping finally at a cheap plastic picket fence […]
Season Finale – Zoot Westchester Triathlon, 9.24.2017 “I should run an Ironman.” The recurring siren song of that fantasy percolates inside my head every year that I train for an Olympic Tri. And every year as I dismount from my bike after the 26 mile ride and transition to the 6.2 mile run, […]
There’s an 800 pound rabid gorilla on the loose sodomizing everyone in its path, and our genius representatives are at each other’s throats arguing about who should pay for the lube.
The press limits and fixates its reporting of earthquakes to measurements on the Richter scale. They toss us a number, usually projected at the epicenter of a target behind them, and we take their dollop of science and run with it. The higher the number, the greater the pucker factor. Done. But the Richter scale […]
Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King. In four days, Donald Trump will become our 45th president. It was the best of minds. It is the worst of minds. The juxtaposition between these two men boggles any mind. Dr. King was unmatched as a courageous visionary, a brilliant and enlightened man of peace who lifted […]
I imagine that Donald Trump is struggling to find the appropriate words to thank America for placing his apprenticeship at the helm and electing him into office. Perhaps this letter will help him to express his gratitude. To My Fellow Americans, It is with feigned humility that I thank you for this incredible honor to serve as your […]
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