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The Queen of my Universe recently showed me a photo essay by two French photographers showing the horrific decay of Detroit. These vestiges of Motown are beautiful and sad at the same time. I stole a couple of the pictures for this post, but you should definitely check out the whole gallery. As the author [...]

Filed under: History, Politics on January 2nd, 2011 | Add Comment! »

Tiger Woods has the long-awaited apology the press and scandal-hungry Americans have been waiting for. Thank you Mr. Woods for coming clean, although you really didn’t need to. You cheated on your wife. You’ve obviously been participating in a recovery program similar to mine. You appear to be putting your life back in order and [...]

Filed under: Politics on February 19th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

I wonder if the people of Hawaii get worried when they see a bunch of rich white guys hanging out. Being tourist paradise, it would probably be more appropriate to say a BIGGER bunch of rich white guys than usual. The Republican National Committee winter organizational meeting is being held in Honolulu and the Reps [...]

Filed under: Politics on February 19th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

Thank you Rufus.

Filed under: General Observations, Music, Politics on February 17th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

I’m a huge fan of irreverence in any context. My guitar sensai introduced me to the music of Bobby Bare, who was way ahead of his time in terms of being irreverent, and its this irreverence that initially attracted me to Todd Snider. Snider sings about things that I often think about, but am too [...]

Filed under: Music, Politics on January 14th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

It occurred to me, as the New York State Senate recently choked on its historic opportunity to provide equal rights to my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, that the problem people are having with gay marriage is the word “marriage.” We hear lots of talk about “preserving the institution of marriage” (bullshit) and we [...]

Filed under: Politics on January 9th, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Okay… I’ll admit, I’m not much of a theologian. I’m not even Christian… but I think Jesus was a cool dude. I love the way the guy thought, and I think if more of us lived the way he supposedly told us to, we’d all be much the better off for it. This is why [...]

Filed under: Politics on December 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s that time of the decade when everyone seems to be doing their end of the decade thinking, and despite my resistance to doing so, I have done so. When I teach my personal recollections of the history of my lifetime I tend to look back on the 80′s as the worst of historical periods, [...]

Filed under: History, Music, Politics on December 27th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

A couple weeks ago at the behest of Moveon.org, I attended a town hall meeting at the Potter Town Garage with Congressman Eric Massa. Yes… the Potter Town Garage. It was very difficult to find, and I was looking for a Town Hall instead of a town garage. I saw a few official looking cars [...]

Filed under: Politics on September 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is from my State Senator Al Volker’s Facebook page. As the recession drags on in New York, lawmakers and state leaders look for ways to revitalize the economy. The tax and spend approach the Democrats took with last year’s budget, adding on over $13 billion in new tax and fee increases, will no longer [...]

Filed under: Politics on August 20th, 2009 | Add Comment! »