Does anybody really care ( Read more... )

I enjoy The Amazing Race as much as the next person, if not more due to my background in Geography, but on one level it seems to perpetuate the Ugly American abroad when frenzied teams jump in taxis or pull up to locals in towns and start screaming at them to take them somewhere quickly. And you would think that after a number of days in Brazil, ( Read more... )

In light of all of the recent controversy regarding illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations, I would like to do my part as a good American to assist the NSA in learning all about my daily habits and sociopolitical viewpoints by coming clean, rather than waiting for some sort of legal decision that might restore my right to privacy and ( Read more... )

Work time occupied only seven and a half of the eight hours I was stuck up in eastern Midtown; for at least one half hour each day, I could spread my wings and fly free. Our favorite local spot to dine was a place called Ovo that was somewhere around 61st and Third, not too far past the Citicorps Building (enough blocks for Andrew to always make a ( Read more... )

In addition to the regulars of the Year Book staff, sometimes Collier added temp workers to assist with the word processing duties, particularly as publishing time came closer. Two of these temps were at the office for months on end, and both were true New York originals ( Read more... )

Dear Sirs ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day approaches, it's pastel pinks and reds a threatening blur in the near distance. The masochists came up with this one, forcing half-hearted lovers to demonstrate their undying commitments with unnecessarily fancy dinners and material goods. And let's not forget about the many of us Eleanor Rigby's who need to be reminded just how ( Read more... )

What will it take for Americans to grow angry enough with this do-nothing administration that they show them the door? We now know that we are being spyed on illegally in the name of freedom. We know that they want to increase their spying powers, finding out not only what books we borrow from our libraries, but what terms we search for on Google ( Read more... )

Tragedy is when what should be is overwhelmed by what has to be ( Read more... )

When I was younger, maybe around the time I was in high schoool with my head buried in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, I believed, as a good neo-hippy does, that non-violent political action was the most admirable and best route to making the overwhelming changes in society. I was no student of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but had been raised to ( Read more... )