Commentary

I read a couple of articles here on Medium about how the writers longed for the days when people were not dressing like slobs in public. It reminded me of all the brouhaha when comedian/actor Monique posted a video lambasting black women about wearing hair bonnets and pajama pants outside. …

You’ll never guess — Jeffrey Denny Everyone is a hypocrite. I am. Sorry, you are too. We all fall short of our moral standards, beliefs and proclamations sometimes, then rationalize excuses for ourselves, even as we hold others to account when they fail. Calling anyone a hypocrite is the height of hypocrisy. So call…

Stand-up comedy has always been an influential part of my media consumption, though in a peculiar, indirect way. It was more like background noise to my upbringing, never in the foreground but looking back, rather ubiquitous. My parents never sat down and regularly broke down specials from legends such as…

Yeah, shit. I mean, hi! 🙂 What can I say? Literally, what I say, write, blog, or think? This got my attention, because I used to work as an attorney defending agency decisions on Social Security disability claims. Well, the stories I could tell you about my first “real job”…

She’s really good, OK, but who is she, really? I just read the best essay by the ubiquitous “unfluencer” Jessica Wildfire that I’ve yet encountered on Medium, a piece titled “Here’s What I’m Doing to Save Myself, and The Planet.” Part enviro-friendly to-do list, part pep talk, it left me…

Funny times we live in. The quiet parts of our society are speaking out loud. If you haven’t heard them yet, merely observe what people nowadays resort to under the pressure of survival. Or how the kinks and violence of those we revered, now reveal themselves. In a world wearing…