In love with the glow

Character Ralph Kramden (right) and Ed Norton (left) of the Jackie Gleason Show, The Honeymooners

I grew up in the glow of TV. It was black and white until I was perhaps ten years old, and color television after that. Color television actually was a big deal, once.

My childhood shows were foolish affairs… Read the rest

Game Over

By the measuring stick of capitalism, Donald Trump has won the game. He has attained the pinnacle of American business success, namely power; his finger on the nuclear button, Donald Trump is now the most fearsome businessman in the world. He has vanquished all enemies and proven his top-predator status;… Read the rest

Cloud Nine

How funny it is that everybody’s talking ’bout The Cloud! English lexicon has caught up with the reality of human consciousness: we have always had our heads in the clouds.

Human beings float in a boundless sky of mental and emotional ambiguity from which we extract concepts and string … Read the rest