Ann Lomott, whose gentle advice to desperate writers is some of the best stuff I’ve ever read, has this to say about the radical right’s adoption of God as their personal mascot: The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own [...]
“I appreciate the leadership of Congressman Tom DeLay, in working on important issues that matter to the country.” You can just see Bush saying it, can’t you? Slipping into his fake Southern accent, blurring syllables together, suppressing a smirk, struggling to strike the perfect balance between banality and condescension. The statement is meaningless, of course, [...]
I’ve had bad eyesight ever since I was a little tike. My first glasses were clunky, embarrassing things, always filthy and bent out of shape, and I wore them only when I absolutely had to. Sometime in the middle of high school, my optometrist introduced me to contacts, and I’ve never looked back. Lately, though, [...]
Ever since George Bush ascended to the presidency, we’ve been mired in a sort of third-rate surrealist freakshow, a bewildering nightmare of corruption and cronyism and dark ideology that we can’t seem to wake up from. One of the effects of this situation is a sort of tolerance, among the general populace, for the lunatic [...]
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hello. I’d like to sell out, please.” The old lady behind the desk looked up from the magazine she was reading and gave me a long, slack-eyed look. She said: “This isn’t selling out.” “Oh,” I frowned. “The man down the hall said …” “Selling out’s next door. This is tempting fate. You got any [...]
In 1982, when I was still a couple of years away from owning my own computer, I spent a really embarrassing amount of time sitting in my room pouring over computer magazines, lusting after everything I saw: Commodore VIC-20′s, Apple IIe’s, Atari 800XL’s … all the old classics. I was a complete junky. I’d read [...]
I hate apples. I hate the way they sound when you crunch into them, I hate their loathsome bittersour taste, I hate the way the skin gets wedged in your teeth and you can’t get it out without floss or major surgery. I hate the way their vile, acidic juices eat away at the lining [...]
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