Taxes, Stupidity, and Death

We live in an interesting age.  Daily, it seems, the news brings details of a society in which satire no longer has a place, because reality is far sillier and stranger than anything that the mi...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/seeing-much-and-understanding-little/

I did something this morning that I haven’t done in a very, very long time. I shut the radio off during a news report. It wasn’t before shouting. I’m not proud of that, but the tantrumatic ...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/no/

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” -John Galsworthy I’m not often challenged by a superhero movie, but as the end credits started rolling up my tv screen las...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/after-action-report-logan-spoiler-alert/

Sequels are a tricky thing.  Generally, if a movie is a sequel, but still ends up with its own name, then I expect that sequel or not, I’m going to see a film that is a story in its own right,...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/after-action-report-john-wick-chapter-2-spoiler-alert/

I knew when I read the synopsis of this film that it would be an emotional experience for me. What I did not anticipate was enjoying it as much as I did. As the film played out, I could see Aflec...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/after-action-report-the-accountant/

Sometimes, you are faced with a disconnect that is so profound that it is alarming in its implications.  One such example is the conduct that I and other friends have been on the receiving end o...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/the-purge-post-election-edition/

I gave up trying to predict the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election.  If I spoke out about the very real reasons why Hillary Clinton, a/k/a Felonia von Pantsuit, could not be allowed to wi...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/so-yeah/

My news feed over the last few days has vacillated between frustrating to comical.  Between tragic to oblivious.  Between…well, you get the picture. The turmoil?  Republican Presidential Can...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/the-uncomfortable-truth/

For hours, Denny drove the ancient Land Rover over numerous back roads of the kind that Cooper and Jake had frequented before Lise brought them in.  He didn’t doubt that the people he could se...

https://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/27/

Rick sat watching as Cooper paced back and forth across the hospital room floor, favoring his right leg in the process. “Dammit, she’s overdue.” Rick shifted in his chair, understanding tha...

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