by aaron | Jan 3, 2019 | blog, Essays
The Emperor didn’t eat just any ketchup with his steak and potatoes. The Emperor ate Heinz ketchup with his steak and potatoes. ‘Bring out the Heinz, bring out the best,’ The Emperor liked to say. It should be a song, like those...
by aaron | Sep 7, 2018 | blog, Essays
“The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.” —from, I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the...
by aaron | Mar 28, 2018 | blog, Essays
When you live in a city you’re surrounded by all sorts of strange and wonderful things: buildings and buses and statues and sirens and the most varied and curious panoply of people, including homeless ones. Lots and lots of homeless...
by aaron | Mar 10, 2018 | blog, Essays
“We kind of gave him—‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here.'” —Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, on Donald Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels Jesus and the parable of the Mulligan (The Gospel According to...
by aaron | Mar 9, 2018 | blog, Essays
When I was a kid I loved to play on the teeter-totter during recess. This toy, which is simply a plank resting atop a fulcrum, allowed you to teeter high up into the air and then totter all the way back to earth [1]That’s simply my assessment of the verbs;...
by aaron | Dec 13, 2017 | blog, Essays
“We call it a tipping point. I think, so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip… Where there’s a lot of smoke, there’s got to be some fire somewhere.” —Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, speaking about Roy Moore ↔...