All Who Are Hungry
2013-03-25 – “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” Thus begins the Passover Seder, which is happening this evening in Jewish homes around the world. The invitation is […]
Words Don’t Matter
2013-03-24 – I’m sitting in a waiting room at LAX waiting for my plane back to Chicago. Actually, that’s not true. I’m writing this Friday night and scheduling this to […]
Warm and Sunny
2013-03-22 – I don’t know about March Madness. I’m not a basketball fan. The March madness I know about is the persistence of sub-freezing temperature in Chicago after the first […]
Getting Out of Town
2013-03-20 – Just a short post, as I’m on a plane today, flying to LA to see my mother for a few days. I always get crazed when a trip […]
You Have to Start Somewhere
2013-03-17 – My opinion of the criminal justice system in this country is somewhere lower than whale dung. We send people off to vile prisons for crimes that often victimize […]
What Is Morality?
2013-03-17 – The right wing has realized a weakness in its pro-corporate politics: the old argument that free markets will make you more prosperous doesn’t work with the middle class […]
Out of Spite
2013-03-15 – Every few weeks I see someone post a kinda new-agey advice on Facebook that goes something like this: “If it doesn’t nourish your soul, get rid of it.” […]
Being Yourself
2013-03-13 – They tell you to be yourself. In some ways this is good advice. You don’t have to remember anything special to be yourself. And you’re probably pretty good […]
Acting Naturally.
2013-03-11 – Yesterday’s blog about the similarities (or differences) in the bodily functions and behaviors of dogs and humans got me thinking about the debate over vegetarianism (in whatever […]
Lifting Your Leg
2013-03-10 – It’s a weird thing to walk into a public park and see someone peeing on a tree. Now I’ve peed on trees. But it’s always been in a […]
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