(And why the Beatles will be forgotten by 2064) I hate popular music. Since I met and married Rachel – the Center Of My Universe and the Reason For My Existence – I have been subjected to a particular genre of popular music each morning as she and I drive to some useless location in [...]

In 2000, Walt Disney Studios released “Remember the Titans”, the story of  Coach Herman Boone (played by Denzel Washington) and his first year as head football coach at T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.  One of the things that makes this a great movie is that it never overtly states the movie’s theme:  [...]

In a recent piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, columnist Jay Bookman praised greed the way I am going to praise Jay Bookman.  Mr. Bookman is an artful wordsmith; his prose is always a pleasure to read, marred only by the fact that his ideas are usually rubbish.  I believe that I have complimented Mr. Bookman [...]

Where politics is involved, I have strict standards of exposure to which I rigidly adhere. DIRECT MAIL DURING PRIMARIES:  Democratic candidate submittals are trashed without review.  Republican offerings are scrutinized with great care. TELEVISION ADS AT ANY TIME IN THE PROCESS:  Like most American males, the television’s remote control is my scepter.  It is always [...]

Last week the dunces driving America’s automobile industry down the washboard road to oblivion, left their corporate jets in Motown and drove hybrid cars to Washington, DC to once again plead their case for a bailout. Having seriously misjudged the symbolic (and, therefore, political) importance of modes of transportation, these transportation moguls were, for a [...]