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Satire. The power of well-directed, on-point humor. Puncturing the false, the over-blown, the mean. Knocking down the brazenly powerful, tho...

The Power Paradox ... this seems "of the moment," for sure... The power paradox is this: we rise in power and make a difference ...

We see what we want to see. And believe what we want to believe. We are biased. If there are facts out there in the world, sometimes they ar...

Can it be? Can it fly? Can a man, a big, blustery man, get up on the national stage, and blatantly, brazenly lie over and over? And get awa...

Blame it on the "mirror neurons."   Some of us are very susceptible to the feelings, thoughts, and vibes of others. We are big, wa...

We walked into the Music Box Theater in Chicago yesterday. Sat down in the room where Ron Howard's "new" Beatles movie was ...

You would think maybe this would be big news... do we still listen to Scientists? Scientists tell us that DNA shows that we are all brothe...

A soul sickness. For many people, "God is dead." Most assuredly. Maybe a broader, deeper sense of spirituality is lost too? How to...

Evan Osnos takes you where you really, really, really don't want to go. A super-scary thought-train. Trump's First Term!   Try it on...

My Lovely Companion and I ventured out to Rennie Sparks art opening last night. Rennie's first ever art show, hosted by Aron Packer. Re...

Zack Beauchamp's "White Riot" is a must-read.  Might help give a bit of context to our disturbing political landscape. It...

Events conspire... "I need a dump-truck mama, to unload my head." - B. Dylan Sometimes everything goes up in smoke. Time for ...

Josh Marshall isn't a psychiatrist, or psychologist. He's a political blogger, but you know, I love how he has been willing to dwell...

The Bloated, Orange-Faced, Short-Fingered, Hair-Challenged Gas-Bag can't help himself. He has spent a life-time being an open-faced assh...

And then one morning you wake up, you go to your Data Guru and you read the unthinkable.  All your optimism sort of vanishes in an instant. ...

Yes, a  "basket of deplorables."   A nice turn of phrase. And oh so true. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamo...

Is that how it happens?  Playing my electric guitar thru an old amp in our rehearsal studio. It's one of those old two-prong, tube amp...

This is probably true... we are numb to the dumb.  Some ignoramus gets on TV and starts talking like an ignoramus. Ho hum. Oh yeah, the guy ...

Someone else faints, and your life passes before your eyes. Live long enough, and you know that people are resilient, but people are also ...

You didn't realize it for a long time... You work. You play. You rehearse. You practice. You spend a lot of time in focused and intens...