Category: Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit
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Why I HATE Missing A Good Earthquake
I’ve lived in Southern California for 35 years — longer than I’ve lived anywhere. That almost makes me a native. It doesn’t — and for that I’ll be eternally sad. I grew up in the east — in a Jewish suburb in northwest Baltimore. I went to Vassar — 90 minutes north of NYC. After…
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On This Perverse Independence Day, A Reminder — American Exceptionalism Is REAL: It’s Our DIVERSITY…
Today may be July 4, but it doesn’t feel like a normal Independence Day. More like… Trumpendance Day. Not a national celebration, a national tragedy. If our problem were only Donald Trump — his corruption, his crime family and their spider web of self-serving criminal enterprises — his treason — this “problem” would have been…
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Dear America: You Can Have Baby Talk Or You Can Have Truth; You Cannot Have Both
Donald Trump being president (footnote – illegitimate president) has put America’s Main Stream News Media in a pickle. How do you report the Truth when the Truth speaks dirty words? I could almost get nostalgic for the days when each TV Talking Head had to decide how they were going to handle “pussy-grabbing”. The thought…
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Dispatches From The War On Drugs — Is That Marijuana We Smell? Or “Surrender”?
I took marijuana to an airport yesterday — out in the open. Here’s what happened… I never imagined I would become a warrior in the War On Drugs. I definitely never imagined that cannabis would touch my life so profoundly that I’d take up its cause with a Kamakazi’s zeal. For reference’s sake — I…
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Americans Need To Get It Out Of Our Heads: We DO NOT Do Everything Right
My gut is, this very American attitude — “How WE Do It Is How It Should Be Done” — flows from, the MALE of the American species. It’s definitely got a “I alone can fix it” pong to it. You know how men are kind of “famous” for refusing to ever ask for directions when…
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Want To Know What “The Precipice” Looks Like For American Democracy? We’re There… How’s The View?
The Supreme Court just refused to rule on political gerrymandering — EVER — in essence legalizing minority rule in America. Meanwhile — stunning tragedy occurs daily on our Southern border — by design. And also meanwhile, a Russian intelligence asset occupies the White House while his whole political party stands by — because they, too,…
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How Many Republicans Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb? Zero — There’s No More House – They Burned It Down
I’m not the first person to compare Donald Trump to an arsonist who sets fires then calls the Fire Department — then does everything he can to get in the Fire Department’s way when they show up to put out the flames. Incompetence is bad. Malicious incompetence is worse. Republicans going back to Lee Atwater…
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The Republican Party Is A Vampire Whose Time Has Come
Pick a monster — any monster — and jack it up on steroids. That’s who & what the GOP has become. Having written a few horror movies in my time, I see Republicans as distinctly vampiric. But worse. They’ve become the real life version of a story character that gets too close to the nuclear…
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We’re Living Through World War THREE – And Don’t Even Know It
Anyone who thinks you need bombs & bullets to win a war is going to lose every war they ever fight going forwards. Right now — that’s us. We’ve been under intense Cyber attack ever since Donald Trump became part of our political process. That’s not hyperbole or conjecture — it’s material fact — contained…
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We Live In A “Golden Age Of Bullshit” – And Its Patron Saint — Donald Trump — Is Killing Us
If ever one word captured the age we live in — it’s “bullshit”. And could a man embody & epitomize bullshit any better than Donald Trump? Shameless plug first — I just finished (and I’m agent-shopping) a book: How To Live Bullshit Free (And Other Showbiz Tales). It’s a painfully funny, brutally honest, name-dropping Hollywood…