Clapp Trap 13 Jun 2013 | 03:17 am

Director of National "Intelligence" James Unwittingly Inspector Clouseau Clapp It was rich to witness Clapp's obligatory melodramatic, derisively Harrumphing Indignation when the Snowdon NSA leak thi...

With great sorrow for my friend Kurt Kolstad 7 May 2013 | 10:12 pm

"Freedom" 29 Mar 2013 | 02:46 am

Author unknown. __ Freedom and I have been together 11 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings. Her left wing doesn't open all the way even after surgery, it was broken...

Dance 27 Mar 2013 | 10:41 pm

Force Majeure? 17 Dec 2012 | 08:01 pm

I posted a comment about the Newtown Connecticut bloodbath on Facebook tonight. Was this tragedy a "Force Majeure"? The act of an extremely deranged young man whose mental illness and consequent nihi...

Socioeconomic Drama 16 Apr 2012 | 01:33 pm

There is a long-established, conceptually simple, and cogent cognitive psych model of suboptimal (to pathological) interpersonal behavior known as "Script Theory." It emanated from Eric Berne's work o...

Whitney Houston, 1963-2012 12 Feb 2012 | 06:21 pm

Notwithstanding all of the incessant tabloid drama surrounding her tragic human failings, this woman's voice incontrovertibly made the world a better place. It's really that simple. My heart goes out ...

On "Envy" 30 Jan 2012 | 04:28 pm

So, tonight, I'm watching the SAG Awards on TV with one eye/ear as I tend to other stuff. I just had this tangentially connective thought as I ruminate on the 2012 presidential campaign. MITT ROMNEY:...

A generation passes 12 Nov 2011 | 10:16 am

Above: I shot this in March 2007 at the assisted living place in Palm Bay, FL where I'd moved my Ma to in January 2005 after she could no longer safely stay in the house just a couple of miles away, w...

My heart goes out to Steve Jobs' family and friends 6 Oct 2011 | 12:19 pm

I hope others can step up to fill this void.