When Dave Chappelle tried to make a room full of people laugh at me, it backfired, and they laughed at him. But I’m not laughing.
Yesterday, I had lunch with a good friend at a restaurant in New York that shares a bathroom with the …
Category Archives: Journal
Why We Need To Put Pizzazz in Impeachment (and Rebuild America’s Educational System)
Shortly after the world changed on November 8, 2016, one of my no-longer-friends enthusiastically declared that we finally had a …
Tarantino’s Love Letter to Trump
During his 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump recycled a campaign slogan used several times before (by Ronald Reagan and Bill …
How Madonna Became Gaga (and Gaga Became Stefani)
In 2010, Camille Paglia wrote an essay for The Sunday Times entitled “What’s Sex Got To Do With It?” Despite …
Not Ready to Make Nice
I was told not to write this. I was told not to “pick a fight.” I was told to be …
“Mom, I am a rich man.”
I have daddy issues. My father was detached and disinterested (at best) for most of my childhood and adolescence before …
Why Shrill Sabotages Its Own Empowerment Message
(If you plan to watch Shrill and care about spoilers, definitely don’t read this until after you’ve caught up.) Shrill, …
The Problem with ‘A Star Is Born’
Warning: SPOILERS. Bradley Cooper and and Lady Gaga in a scene from A Star is Born, which Bradley Cooper also …
A Case for Clemency: Why the Menendez Brothers Should Be Released
These days, the world feels crushingly bleak. There is no shortage of horror in our daily news, no shortage of …
Just Some Facts (About Israel and the Myth of Apartheid)
This post is not meant to declare that any one people is “good” or “bad.” I’ve repeatedly tried to move …
