Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Being Sick

1 I lost my voice. I don’t remember having laryngitis since the sixties. It was illegal to be sick growing up in my house. You see my mother’s mother was a hypochondriac and as a result if we had a sniffle we went to school and we did not go to the doctor unless we […]

A Note From The Front

1 I’ve been sick as a dog. And there’s nothing worse than being unable to ski whilst at a ski area. I could check myself, apologize somehow, for not only being in Vail but choosing to ski at all, but that’s exactly the point. You think everybody is watching, you think everybody cares, when in […]

The Twitter Bans

This isn’t about social media, this is about authoritarianism. This is what happens when one person has too much power and exercises it willy-nilly. Not only can no one stop him (or her!), a good percentage of the population supports them. That’s right, Elon Musk is now a hero to the right. Which is kind […]

Turbocharged Stars

You can’t avoid Elon Musk. There are only three superstars in America today, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Kanye West. You can’t avoid them, everybody knows who they are and everybody has an opinion on them. Used to be records were ubiquitous, now it’s people. This is what the internet has wrought. For a minute […]