Half-past Israel
My name is Netanyahu, Cunt of Cunts, Look on my works ye Mighty and despair. You get to a point in life where you have either reached, however truncated, the…
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Beauty and the Beasts
Lazaro Cardenas Street in Mexico City is the unofficial dividing line that separates the Historic Center from the expansive, more modern part of the most populous metropolitan area in the…
The Sports Psychologist
Stay in the moment, visualize, don’t dwell on past failure or on letting your team down if you screw up again, remember what you did when you were doing well,…
Big Women
It’s been said, at least by women, that the world would be better off were it directed by women. However, there is precious little evidence to support such an assumption….
No Gay in the Life of Pavel Datsyukian.
Once in a long while comes a hockey player whose skill and grace touch a level of distinction that reaches for lore. It is as if he was born on…
On Poverty.
I was wandering aimless in a Mexican crowd recently when I saw a truck with a loud ad for a just released KFC product. Beneath the enticing photo of a…
Was Jesus Gay?
Legend has it that somewhere between 10 BCE and the year 0 CE, a child was born to a girl named Mary, the young wife of Joseph, a carpenter from…
The God Couple.
In putting on his recent God and pony-up show in the Washington Mall, Glenn Beck chose his venue wisely. Anything smaller and there might not have been enough room to…
Death of the Salesman.
It’s over then. As empires go, this one didn’t last long. The ending came not in one defining moment, perhaps it hasn’t even dawned on many, but it’s finished; done-in…
Of Flogging and Blogging.
From the 14th through the 16th centuries, the City of Florence Italy was the epicenter of what became known as the Italian Renaissance. It was a time of reaching back…