Let’s start with a simple question: The main reason to open your mouth is:
A) To shove food into it, or
B) To express yourself.
If you answered “B”, I think we need to talk. You figger that’s what yer mouth is for, yes?
Monthly Archives: July 2008
15 Second Politics
More and more, politics has devolved into positions that can be stated in 15 seconds or less. That’s not at all a coincidence with the time it takes for the shortest of commercials that run on teevee.
Nice Work if You Can Get It
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.”
Not to take too much away from George Gershwin, summertime is the hardest time of the year for me; even moreso around the Fourth of July. I make my living as a consultant to nonprofits, writing grants, pr, strategic plans, and just any other way they need their story to be told. It’s a good business right up until the weather heats up and everyone goes on vacation. It’s a serious kind of work, and it dries up when people’s minds are less than serious.
Fly the Flag
The misunderstandings and suspicions melted away, as they always do, after a few litres of liquid bread that the Germans call “Bier”. Harald was very honest in his German way, a kind of honesty that was spelled out in long, silent pauses as much as words. “With all of these different people and cultures, what is it that makes you Americans?”
Housing Bubble, Toil and Trouble
The other day I got into an argument in some distant corner of the internet. That’s not exactly news – it happens far too often in my life. But this particular argument, setting aside how it got personal, was rather important to me.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 