Frozen Toothpaste

Today’s “Other People’s Words” is short but sweet. It’s a poem by Phillip Larkin about cutting the grass and discovering the sanctity of life.
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled […]

Our intrepid reporter Steve Finch bring us a story to be filed under “conspiracy theories you only wish were true.”
HOLLYWOOD - It was announced today by a conglomerate of media moguls, industry fat-cats, and corrupt politicians that for the last hundred years they have been developing and refining America’s celebrity culture. From humble beginnings, around […]

John McCain was on Charlie Rose this Monday (video here). On the program, he cogently explained what, if implemented, would surely be one of the best ways to lose the so-called “War on Terror.”
What McCain said was not so bad as the “all Muslims are evil” statements Americans still hear. His statement was rather moderate […]

In case you hadn’t heard, Michael Bloomberg reiterated yesterday that he would not run for President, this time adding that he’d decided that he couldn’t win. This struck many, including myself, as a rather final declaration that he really has no intention of running.
And I’m sure to that I wasn’t the only one at least […]

You should probably know from the start that I thought about giving this a less generous name. The one I most wanted to use was “The Law of Attraction is Hooey,” but I also thought about adding the snarky but overblown, “I’ll tell you The Secret:” to the front of it. Now that you know […]