First of all, what do we call it? Was it the zeros, as in “zero one, zero two, …”? Something seems to be missing in that handle. Or maybe the thousands, “thousand one, thousand two”? Night exactly the right ring, with all due respect to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The oh’s […]
Archives for December 2009
Another Look at the Joys of the Season
It has been twelve years since I penned the following ode to the joys of the holiday season. At the time, the first of the horrific school shootings (by a 14-year old) had just settled into our collective consciousness, we were only beginning to recover from the sudden death of Princess Diana, and we […]
Presidential Irony: Obama Makes Case for “Just Wars” While Accepting Nobel Peace Prize
“Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.” -The Who (“Won’t Get Fooled Again”) President Obama displayed appropriate humility in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize last week, acknowledging that he had done comparatively little to deserve the honor when matched up against past recipients like Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and […]
What Would Dickens Say? Holiday Season Not What It Used to Be
With December now well underway, the advent season, which will run to the 25th day of the month, is in full swing. For those who may have forgotten (or perhaps never knew), the month of December is marked by two events of particular importance. The first is the official start of winter (on or […]