Static from the past

June 29, 2022–If you want to ponder how all common knowledge is probably not true–and by everything, I mean everything told to you by advertisers, the government, scientists, well-meaning aunts, scriptwriters, and neighbors–spend some time listening to 1930s and 1940s...

How to be poor

June 22, 2022–One thing that recent lockdowns, winter storms, shortages of essential products, and economic fluctuations have taught me is this: I am grateful I know how to be poor. Not poor like our parent’s and grandparent’s Depression-era poor, but poor as in “only...

Falling Anvils

June 1, 2022–As a kid, I expected to see a lot more anvils dropping on heads. Like every child of the black and white TV era, cartoons and comics informed my worldview. Inside the pages of those Sunday funnies and on the Saturday morning Looney Tunes, we learned the...