"Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him." - Mark Twain Watching morning joggers bounce past on a lovely 37 degree morning. I'd thought about writing on the aftermath of Trump's surrender in the Iran War, particularly with regard to the knucklehead core of true believers who light up social media to parrot their Cheeto Messiah's talkin

"Keep an open mind and always look for the good in people. You may be surprised at what you find." -Erich "Bubi" Hartmann Walking home last night from class, past groups of mostly NYU undergrads shuffling to the social gathering of the evening on a brisk night, it occurred to me how strange their lives are to me, and how very strange my life in my 20s would have been to them. I found myself thinking of "straight lines and little hooks", of "never turning on a merged plot", of

"It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine" -R.E.M., 1987 So early this morning Dear Leader promised "A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight". We sit here less than eleven hours from his bogus deadline. Will this be a TACO moment, yet again? If he directs the Air Force to murder most of the 93 million people in Iran with a nuke strike, will anyone in uniform refuse to follow that blat

"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Back by myself in the Lower East Side after spending the Easter weekend with P at the Cliff in Canandaigua. Not sure what happened, but the world sort of caught up with me around the middle of yesterday afternoon as I was driving through mist in eastern Pennsylvania, and by bedtime I was reliving videos of my war a