Lost Journal: With Birthday Gifts, Sometimes it’s the Lack of Thought That Counts
Journal entry: May 4, 1981 (age 12): Birthday Monday is the worst day of the week to have a birthday. You have to go to school, and everybody … Read more
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Lost Journal: Not Working at the Car Wash
Journal entry: May 30, 1987 (age 18): Car Wash As my senior year at Seton Catholic Central High School comes to a close, the milestone events are starting … Read more
Congratulations on Your New Diagnosis! (Greeting Cards for People with Mental Problems)
It’s true, there are greeting cards for everything these days… By Roz Warren, Isaac Blum and Kate Stone Happy birthday to you and all of your personalities. Hope … Read more
The Batty Battalion’s Lame Call on Lame Duck
Punditry declares Obama is already a lame duck, and may as well burrow deep and lie low You do realize that Washington, D.C. is not the real world, don’t … Read more
Corporate Cowards Divert Shareholder Funds into “Dark Money”
Dark money strategy enabled by “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court pretends, they certainly are loudmouths, constantly telling us how great … Read more
Lost Journal: Kornheiser Removed from 7-year-old’s Enemies List (for Now)
Lost Journal entry: June 3, 2008 (age 39) A few weeks ago, I wrote a “Lost Journal” column about my 7-year-old nephew Tommy’s “Enemies List.” It explained that … Read more
Lost Journal: Nephew’s “Enemies List” Exposed
Journal entry: May 8, 2008 (age 39): Enemies list Hell hath no fury like a 7-year-old scorned. Recently, my brother Dan told me that his son, Tommy, has … Read more
Droning On: Paranoia Time
Got your tinfoil hat? It’s paranoia time in America again. Put on your tinfoil hats everybody. Or didn’t you get the memo? It’s paranoia time in America again. … Read more
George W’s $250 Million Can of Whitewash
Big doings in Big D — the George W. Bush Presidential Library is open for business! What a piece of work it is: a $250 million, 226,000-square-foot edifice … Read more
American Politicians and the Tail-Sucking Mobius Loop
A veritable gaggle of disgraced politicians have recently serpentined their way back into the spotlight F. Scott Fitzgerald famously uttered, “there are no second acts in American lives,” … Read more
