None of these words are in this book.
As this 2016 presidential race has shown, 21st century America could use a new political vocabulary. We need some shiny new words, ones capable of capturing the subtleties and not-so-subtleties of candidate as well as voter behavior more precisely than shopworn Indo-European terms like “ignorant,” “deceptive,” “misguided,” “oblivious,” “gullible,”…
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Capping true stories with lies, a Trump mainstay, was central to the O.J. Simpson defense.
Donald Trump is coming to our Denver Lowry neighborhood today, to a rally at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. Denver. A buddy of mine joked that we should maybe build a wall around the neighborhood. I said…
An old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I'd like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what?
As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking for blog posts about the festival's speakers - quick hits, mostly: some background, an interview,…
I picked up my seventh-grade daughter at the Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences (nee Roscoe C. Hill Middle School) in Denver early today. Waiting in the lobby, I perused art. I am always struck by the creativity of the average middle-school kid.
In this case, the operative medium was what was once the mainstay portable-music…
No less a business giant than Henry Ford was for the $15 movement (inflation adjusted) Photo Courtesy PBS.
While I'm personally all for a $15 minimum wage (economic theory be damned), I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about it. But just now, I was chaining away, mentally speaking, and came upon an interesting comparison.
The initial…