I don’t play golf. In part it’s because I’m bad at the game. Last time I played, I shot in the low 80s, but then the second hole was even worse. Someone once told me that watching me play golf was like watching someone rollerskate up a flight of stairs…

I’m a person of ritual. If I do something two or three times, it becomes a permanent part of the routine. Whether it’s daily morning exercise, semi-annual showers or never, ever paying my taxes, I’m a creature of habit. One such habit has been my nightly insistence on faithfully watching…

Democracy. It is a system of government that promises much. It boldly declaims that governmental legitimacy is gained exclusively through the consent of the governed. Throughout history the alternatives to democracy were uttery indifferent to that consent. …

Today is the day after. The day after the latest horrific mass shooting at an elementary school where as of this moment, eighteen innocent children are dead. …

I have a lot of pet peeves. They range from the propensity of restaurants to leave the tails on shrimp to the fact that much of the time, I’m not invisible. But not many things piss me off more than the use of the term “frivolous lawsuit”. I say that…

“I’ll be your mirror, reflect what you are. In case you don’t know”. - Lou Reed - From time-to-time we all wonder how others see us. In my case I’m pretty sure most folks see me as a Gremlin-Doofus with the hairline and posture of a medicine ball. But we…

People sometimes behave in strange and seemingly irrational ways. Paying to attend events where big trucks crush smaller trucks comes to mind. I mean, it’s a bigger truck. It’s going to crush the smaller truck. That’s what big things do, especially to smaller things. …

Sometimes things deserving go unsung. In the case of music, that is literally true. Over the course of the many years (93 and counting!) that I’ve been listening to music, there have been albums that have landed right in the sweet spot of the prevailing cultural zeitgeist. Those albums have…

It is axiomatic in life that when someone claims they oppose something an adversary wants because it’s better for the adversary, that someone is lying. If the Pittsburgh Steelers wanted a 12th man on the field in a game, it would be legitimate for the Cowboys to say “Hey, that’s…