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America, We’ve Been Punk’d
“After two Chopin Martinis, six blue cheese stuffed olives and forty-five minutes of listening to me list the indignities perpetrated by the Trump administration this week, he turned to me and with a wicked grin said in mildly slurred speech, ‘What if this is a very elaborate episode of Punk’d.’ Imagine this…” Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, fiction, humor, life, writing
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When The Wolves Howl
An old Russian parable about wolves and survival isn’t just a story—it’s a strategy. When the howling starts, loyalty has a shelf life, and someone always gets pushed off the sled. Continue reading
Making Airport Lines Great Again
After 3.3 million miles, airports once meant escape and possibility. Now they feel like a monument to Trump’s ego—longer TSA lines, performative fixes, and policy driven less by competence than by the refusal to ever admit being wrong. The magic didn’t fade. It was suffocated. Continue reading
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Tagged federal policy, government policy, Homeland Security, ICE, life, political commentary, travel, travel-tips, trump, tsa, US politics, writing
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Washington Knew. (Trump, Not So Much.
Which brings us to our current journey of historical dementia, perpetrated by a president who is no doubt psychologically altered, a secretary of defense who is more concerned about bringing on the rapture than the consequences of war, and a Congress that is vertabraically challenged. These are the men who not only forgot history but are now rediscovering it at a cost to the American taxpayer of roughly $1 billion a day. Continue reading
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Democracies.
Once released, feathers scatter.
Once amplified, lies scale.
What made sense in the dial-up era may not make sense in the age of monetized outrage.
Read: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Democracies. Continue reading
How Many Donald Trumps Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?
Fear demands attention. It always has. Some express it in tears, some in anger, some in power. But laughter is the one response fear cannot survive, because it refuses to grant fear authority over the moment Continue reading
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Tagged family, life, love, mental-health, politics, trump, writing
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How Many Donald Trump’s Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
A routine medical visit becomes a reflection on public life: fear, noise, and why humor may be the only response that refuses to play the same game as power. Continue reading
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The Pomeranian Presidency.
Just before falling asleep on Tuesday night, my phone — resting peacefully on my night table — chirped. Then chirped again. Then again. I have a rule about checking my phone before bed. The phone at that hour is a … Continue reading
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Good at Hate. Governance Not So Much
I was slapped in the face by two epiphanies this week. Perhaps epiphany is the wrong word. They were moments of clarity—reminders of what I already knew but, for reasons known only to God and my therapist, I had repressed … Continue reading
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Blame it on Rio 
The Absolut Worst
This week I had lunch with the guy who literally wrote the book on Absolut advertising. And it got me thinking: what if I pitched Absolut today?
So I did. With a little help from AI.
The results are… something. 🍸 Continue reading →