Make Peace With Your God

Make Peace With Your God

So… another national opera company just became the second one this year whose Board of Directors has eliminated the position of “Artistic Director” to save money. Sarcasm Mode/ After all, they can probably get somebody’s cousin to do all that...
More is More

More is More

There’s currently a line of popular thinking that disparages younger generations for being hopelessly out-of-the-loop regarding current events. But is that really true? Because despite complaints that younger people devote less time to “the news”...
Fearless and Inventive

Fearless and Inventive

Political Correctness functions according to the assumption that “it is never okay to risk offending someone else, ever.” I, on the other hand, simply don’t believe that. Once you resign yourself to the attempt, it’s a slippery slope to...
Axes & Allies

Axes & Allies

There’s a lot of calculated outrage in the news media and blogosphere over the recent rioting in Baltimore, MD. Unsightly labels like “race riot”are being tossed around by snarling pundits, in hopes they might find a target and stick to it. What...
A Beast By Any Other Name

A Beast By Any Other Name

So… way back before Upton Sinclair’s groundbreaking book “The Jungle” exposed the heinous practices of America’s food industry and inspired the creation of the FDA, those companies used to feed the American public rotten beef, diseased...
You Can’t Handle The Truth

You Can’t Handle The Truth

History has proven time and again that “radical” ANYTHING usually winds up on the “bad idea” side of the line, especially where politics is concerned. Political radicals have been responsible for some of the biggest, bloodiest messes in human...