Who Let the Messiahs Out?
2015-01-04 – I live in a neighborhood with lots of religious Jews. There a small segment of these Jews who fly flags with a crown and the word “mashiach.” Mashiach […]
Tag Archives: Diogenes Day
Happy Diogenes Day Eve!
2014-09-30 – Tomorrow, October 1, is Diogenes Day, the annual day devoted to the truth. In the spirit of the truth, I give you the final verse of Robert Burns […]
One Day for Truth
2014-08-31 – Thursday evening my wife and I came home from having dinner at a neighborhood Mexican restaurant. There was a card stuck in our door. The guy who put […]
Less Than Two Months Till Diogenes Day
2014-08-03 – Get your lies out now, because come October 1 it will be “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” October 1 is Diogenes Day, but […]
Cross My Heart and Hope to . . .
2014-03-25 – We now learn that putting your hand over your heart tends to make you more honest and that folks witnessing this act perceive this act as indicating honesty. […]
Rand Paul and Fiction
2013-10-31 – People are up in arms about Rand Paul’s “plagiarism” of a Wikipedia article on the science fiction film Gattaca. I’m not going to join that chorus. He used […]
Hernia? Jesus!
2013-10-01 – Happy Diogenes Day! If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you know that today is the day for celebrating truth telling. But I’ve written enough on the subject […]
Diogenes Day Is October 1
2013-09-29 – September may seem an odd time to write about April Fools’ Day. But last April, I got to thinking about how April Fools’ Day had lost its special […]
Truth About Diogenes Day
2013-09-26 – Okay! Here’s a bit of pre-Diogenes-Day truth. I blew this thing! And I’m sorry! If you’re not a regular reader of this blog, you may not know that […]
Diogenes Day Is Coming
2013-09-15 – Last April Fools’ Day I proposed having a kind of anti-April Fools’ Day on October 1. It is called Diogenes Day, named after the ancient Greek cynic who […]
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