Who Needs Enemies? I know politicians aren’t as pure as the driven snow. They’re not innocent. You have to break a few eggs to make progress and even some of today’s heroes are yesterday’s villains. …

The Unbearable Heaviness Of Being. . .Uncool While most of the rest of the country has already been back in school for quite some time Seattle students finally returned to school today. The annual return to lower level academia made me wax nostalgic. . . for about a minute. Then I remembered what fresh hell accompanied the…

Where Are The Boat Drinks When You Really Need Them? It was just one of those moments we all live through. One minute you’re in a loud room filled with conversation, the next minute you let slip a doozy of a comment just as everybody experiences the statistical seven-and-a-half minute lull in their conversations all at the same time…so everyone…

If It Works For Taylor Swift, It Works For Me. I know it may be hard to believe, but there are days when I have trouble finding inspiration to write. Hell, if August was any indication, there are whole months when I can go without being motivated. No, really. I’m sure you’re dumbfounded to learn that the very man who…

How About A Judge To Be Named Later? The problem with looking at headlines, reading only the first few paragraphs of a newspaper story or getting your news from a nightly newscast is that you often miss some of the best details. Some small, some big, some just plain strange. It makes sense, of course. That’s how they…

It May Be Time To Line Up A Few Sponsors It takes a lot of money to produce a television show with even the most modest production values and the upcoming RICO trial of one Donald John Trump in Atlanta, Georgia will be no different. If you’re old enough to remember the Watergate hearings, you’re old enough to realize that…

And The Job Still Isn’t Finished You can learn a lot from cleaning your office, especially if yours is as messy as mine with layers upon layers, some of them dating back to the Bush administration. And no, I don’t mean President Obama’s immediate predecessor. At that point, it isn’t so much an office cleaning as…

The Charges Are Crazy, But The Details Are Even Crazier As I like to tell my wife, I’m nothing if not helpful. (To which she always responds by giving me a meaningful look and saying, “You’ve got that right,” which makes me wonder what she’s trying to say). That’s why I just sat down and reviewed Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s…

The Driver’s Ed Follies. Note: While decrapifying my office, I came across this humor piece I wrote many years ago, which seems especially timely now that one of my children is about to take their first driving classes. How our parents did it, I’ll never know. Any 15 year-old that has ever accused their…