A horrible thought just occurred to me. You know how dogs sleep? Usually with their feet skipping along, to accompanying mini-yips. It’s really cute. But then I realized: We assume a dog is having a pleasant dream when we see that. Perhaps images of untrodden fields and unsniffed anuses. Yet my dog never acts …
That Donald Trump pulled the U.S. from the Paris global warming accord was as inevitable as the rising sea. What is surprising is the rationale that punctuated the withdrawal — and that we in the press let it pass for logic. We would expect the right to applaud it. …
As a jalopy junkie (I’ve owned at least four dozen get-our-and-push models), I’ve had my share of license plates, most of them expired and registered to dead people to cut down on parking tickets. I’ve only owned two personalized plates, one intentionally. The first was a tag that came with a Porsche Boxster that was …
I’m lucky enough to have friends and a mother who suffer my theories, although I have no idea how gladly. There’s the Lift-and-Separate Theory of technology. The God-as-Deadbeat-Dad Theory of religion. And, of course, the Great Race War Theory of politics: the hypothesis that racial tensions can be quantifiably measured — so, to some degree, predicted …
Ok, so the past 18 months have been tough for liberals, Democrats, women, minorities, homosexuals, immigrants, the environment, the press and, in an overarching sense, intellectualism itself. But there’s an upside to the past year and a half. Consider what has flourished under the New World Order: Sports. It has been an unreal stretch for …
I just watched the umpteenth interview with an apoplectic reporter proclaiming the sky was falling (or, as I call it, Chicken Littling) after the latest rumor to circulate from the Trump administration: that he may deport all press to the Executive Office Building next door to the White House. To hear them, you’d think Trump …
(photo by Michelle Brown) True story. I awoke with some trepidation on Inauguration Day. Perhaps I’d heard ‘bigly’ too often, or feared that Vladimir Putin would do the s(w)earing-in. Whatever the reason, I wondered if a nuclear winter would greet me that morning. But when I wobbled into the shower and looked out the window, I …
Hey Sam, Happy Birthday! Well, ours, at least. It was 17 years ago today we met, shortly after your motorcycle accident. I can’t tell you how sad your mom was then, or how tough it was deciding to have your organs harvested. She argued with your dad over it. But her years as a …
From WDET Detroit Public Radio December 8: Does giving something a name give it power? That’s what WDET wondered in the latest episode of its podcast Created Equal. It examined the origins of a crime first identified in the Motor City: carjacking. The term was invented in 1991 after Detroit News crime reporter Scott Bowles …
The Hollywood Bowles 