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After the show
Vintage miniature: Hobo clown…
Read moreShave and a haircut…
Barber chair: Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia
Read moreHowdy
Hey Kids, it’s Howdy Doody time. See you in your dreams.
Read moreOverthinking: rock music, pop culture, Donald Trump and America’s desperate race to the bottom
Donald Trump isn’t an anomaly. He isn’t an outlier. He isn’t a blip on the radar of history. He’s the very embodiment of the black, ignorant American soul. [Apologies in advance. These issues may seem unrelated to some of you, but the dots connect perfectly in my head. I’ll let you know when the big leap is about to happen.]
Read moreWho was the second-worst president…
A small prophecy…
Read moreIts time to rid the English language of it’s outdated grammar and punctuation rules
Grammar nazis may not like it, but many of our language rules are artifacts of ancient languages that no longer serve a meaningful purpose. I’ve been a writer since the ’70s. I’ve written poetry, fiction, academic, business, political and entertainment pieces. I’ve written for print, broadcast, online, social and mobile. I’ve been responsible for ~2,300 posts at S&R alone (although
Read moreHappy 4th of July: what does “freedom” mean to you?
America is a great idea, but it’s hard to love these days. At some point tonight millions and millions of us will find ourselves sitting in a stadium or a park or maybe on a city rooftop or a grassy hill in the country, staring at the sky, celebrating our country’s anniversary by watching the annual fireworks show. I won’t
Read moreJohn Oliver’s beatdown of DaVita reminds us: Richard Nixon was an American liberal icon
The democratization of photography: S&R Honors George Eastman
Our lives are full of Kodak moments.
Read moreThe only way to defeat Trump and his supporters
It’s about tribalism. You cannot work with Trumpists. Period. You must defeat them and then fix the problems that handed them control. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. – Jonathan Swift Since the moment of Campaign 2016 when it became clear that Donald Trump actually had a chance,
Read moreLegacy
My girlfriend’s great-great grandparents. Maybe Civil War era, roughly?
Read moreRemembering 2016: the year when everyone died
No, famous people won’t stop dying on January 1. But we lost too many bright lights this year and we hope that 2017 will be better. Here’s a list of noteworthy people who died in 2016. For the past several months a lot of us have been saying we can’t wait for this damned year to be over. 2016 gave us
Read moreResolved: that future presidential debates ought to use the Lincoln-Douglas format
Partisan discourse can’t sink much lower. Now is the time to resurrect a format that was made for political debates. The third and final “debate” between presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is now mercifully in the rearview mirror, but like a direct hit from an aggrieved skunk, it might take weeks for the stink to fully die down. This trifecta
Read moreDemocracy in America: a bad idea
It’s now clear that democracy, as practiced in an anti-intellectual society like ours, doesn’t work. Let’s give elitism (properly understood) a try. Many of you probably read Andrew Sullivan’s New York Magazine piece back in April. If not, you should do so as soon as possible – it’s among the most important and insightful political essays we have seen in a generation and
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lullaby pit 