How To Live BULLSHIT-FREE

First of all — I love, love, LOVE “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid”. The script is brilliant.  It’s literature — and reading William Goldman’s screenplay/book “Adventures In The Screen Trade” was my own ‘Idiot’s Guide’ to how to crack the Nut that is screenwriting.  And Goldman — in ‘Butch Cassidy’ breaks every single rule…

Maybe it’s an atheist thing… Let’s say, I meet you across a table for the first.  After introductions we are charged with making a decision together. As a way to introduce myself (and, being verbose and didactic and, generally, annoying), I give you a sense of ‘how I think’ — the basis for my decision-making…

There’s going to be a Moment of Truth — when Robert Mueller finishes the first phase of his work and we know — in all its spectacular, historical awfulness — the full scope of what Russia & Donald Trump & the republican Party have done to us. No doubt there’ll be a few who insist…

Five years after Sandy Hook and the exact same event could happen again — in exactly the same way.  What happened in Columbine can happen today.  And Las Vegas. And they do happen.  Every day. Because the MAJORITY of Americans — NOT gun owners — are in the thrall of the MINORITY of Americans —…

I tweeted about this over the summer.  I was visiting family and a niece — very clever young lady who’s on her way to great, great things — put forward this idea — that there could very easily be a President Pelosi without any extra-Constitutional gymnastics required. When I laid out the path — and…

Sometimes I wish there really WAS an afterlife — just so I could SEE the look on the faces of the Extremely Religious when they ‘encountered the ‘afterlife’ and realized — EVERYTHING THEY’D EVER BEEN TOLD — about what would be awaiting them at THEIR HOUR OF JUDGMENT was bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit. Imagine…

For years and years — before it became even a remote possibility that cannabis would be legalized — I wanted to tell the story of HOW CANNABIS WAS MADE ILLEGAL in the first place.  As stories go?  It is the Epitome of Bullshit. And we owe it all to one man, really — THIS GUY…

I still can’t quite get my head around the fact that this guy is gone… And it’s been 37 years since THIS GUY left the stage… And THAT still hurts… Maybe it’s the thought of the fight ahead that’s got me feeling nostalgic this morning — thinking about how we do this — how we…

How to explain this… Let’s start small — basic ideas.  You and I are stranded on an island.  The only way to get help is to swim 10 miles to the mainland.  I know how to swim a little, you don’t know how to swim at all.  If swimming is our ONLY way off the…

Because BOTH SIDES of an argument should always be heard…