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Dirty Laundry lets it all hang out. Poetry and pontificating on everything from baseball to motherhood to sex.
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Tropic Thunder
Offensive? Absolutely. Should it be boycotted or otherwise censored? Absolutely not. The only things I read about Tropic Thunder before seeing it were a WordPress blog that called it hilarious and a S...
Olympics, Pride and Patriotism
I don’t get it. I must be missing a gene, or some area of my brain must be damaged. I do not, never have, and probably never will feel pride when people from my country (or city or state) win a bask...
Ranting
I don’t rant nearly enough on this blog. I do it plenty to the radio and television when they’re spewing out the miserable news of the day, but I don’t think they hear me. Herewith, a compendium...
Be Old Now
I must be the only member of my generation—the Baby Boomers—avidly courting old age. Everyone else is trying like mad to stay young and live past 90, but I want to be old now and die before I’m ...
Disconnected
Last Friday my DSL pooped out. I was happily surfing around WordPress blogs, clicking from one to another, when my final click took me to a note in big bold red letters informing me I was not connecte...
The High Cost of Mothering
As the media does every so often, CNN yesterday reported the latest calculation of what mothers would earn if they were actually paid, in cold hard cash, for their labor. That number today would fall ...
UNHUBBED
About a week ago I saw an ad for The HUB, one of those blog sites where you throw up your stuff and if you get a zillion hits you earn half a penny, or somesuch arrangement, via Google and Amazon ads....
To The Democrats
An Open Letter To George McGovern and the Democratic Party: Please, please, please! You must STOP telling Hillary Clinton to drop out of the primary race! The situation is not exactly the same as it ...
Obama Throws Reverend Under the Bus
Why did Barack Obama denounce Reverend Wright yesterday, after weeks of resisting pressure to do so? He says he was appalled by some of the things the Rev said in a National Press Club speech—but I ...
Train Wreck Continued
The more I ruminate on what’s happened with this election, the more agitated I become. I’m thinking about all those Democratic candidates who had so much potential, but who never stood a c...
Train Wreck: The Presidential Election
I don’t know about other progressives/liberals/radicals/Democrats, but I’m gettin’ real freaked out, kids. For 15 months this train’s been speeding headlong into what’s looking more and more...
Cell Phones, Race and Rudeness
“But we have poisoned everything And oblivious to it all The cell phone zombies babble Through the shopping mall..” –Joni Mitchell I got into a verbal fight with a cell phone zombie on the...
A Letter To Major League Baseball
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CLEVELAND INDIANS, BUD SELIG, AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Dear Baseball World: The recent name change by the Tampa Bay Rays (formerly “Devil Rays”) prompts me to write to you r...
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Obviously I’m not talking about that wretched winter overkill known as The Holidays. No, for me and millions of other people, it’s baseball season that brings joy to our hearts and a lift to our s...
Busting Blockbuster
As readers can see by looking at the comments, it turns out my information is several centuries out of date. I’m leaving this post up, though, cuz I think it’s good food for thought: Block...
The Holy Agent
“It does no harm to repeat, as often as you can,’ Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub agents, the accountants, the libel lawye...
Happy Spring!
Happy Spring–and Happy Birthday to me, and to my grandson Lowell. I’m going down to LA to spend our contiguous birthdays together. He’ll be 8, and I’ll be…but why keep co...
The Emperor Takes Off His Clothes. Again.
Didn’t you just love those first headlines? New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is “involved in an international prostitution and money-laundering ring.” The guy hired a hooker!–and initial re...
The Devil’s In The Details: Tampa’s Name Change
First time I heard about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays dropping the Devil from their name was last week, in the aftermath of the rumble with the Yankees down in Florida. Which just goes to show that what&#...
Dining for Dollars
Living as I do on a limited budget, I rarely go out to eat. My favorite treat, when I get a windfall of $100 for some story I forgot I sold, is to go to Starbucks for a mocha frappuccino and a blueber...
Therapy Hell: In Treatment on HBO
We’ve now had five weeks of the HBO series In Treatment, enough time for me to develop an opinion worth posting. For anyone without HBO access, or who hasn’t seen the show, briefly: Paul, a therap...
Andy Candy-Ass
Candy-Ass. Back in high school (Long Island, New York c. 1962) that’s what we used to call anyone who behaved like a wimp, and Andy Pettitte’s response to being caught ingesting human gro...
Call for Submissions: My Baby Rides the Short Bus
Submissions wanted about parenting kids with disabilitites for an upcoming anthology to be published by PM Press (Winter, 2009). “We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of parents raisi...
Mr. Clemens Part II
Mr. Clemens Part II Since yesterday I’ve been obsessively reading commentary on the Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball. Of course, I tend to seek out those stories that mesh, or expan...
Mr. Clemens Goes to Washington
BLECCCCCHH!!! What a revolting abuse of power. Where is it written that the United States government should monitor what goes on in Major League Baseball? Under what constitutional imperative are thes...
That Guy
“I wouldn’t vote for that guy!” Larry said when I asked if he’d voted for Obama. Larry’s way of thinking is completely different from that of anyone I’ve ever met; during his years on the ...
Michael Vick’s Dogs
If, like me, you watch Animal Planet’s endless animal cop shows–coming from New York, Detroit, Houston, Miami, and San Francisco–you’ll want to read the real life story of the ...
Ralph Nader: Expletive Deleted
Here he comes again. The Jon Edwards campaign has hardly been properly mourned, and Ralph Nader comes riding in on his big bullshit machine to be sure we get four more years of despotic rule, this tim...
The Writers Strike
I’ve been impressed by the almost unanimous support for the TV and movie writers in this strike. Considering that writers in general are disrespected, misunderstood and marginalized, this c...
Upset In Iowa: Edwards Trumps Clinton
That’s not a headline you’re likely to see this morning. As it’s been doing all along, the media only pays attention to the horse race between Obama and Hillary (Do they/we call her ...