by Splabman | Aug 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was coming out of the canoe and walking up the path at the North Leschi Marina with my daughter Rebecca, as my partner Bhakti rowed on in her canoe on Lake Washington that it hit me. The background is that I have a primal fear of being underwater. My daughter too,...
by Splabman | Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Most recent American Sentence.
by Splabman | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve loved the Onion for years and can remember almost wetting myself at the biting humor of some of the stories. (One on Ozzie Guillen comes to mind.) Dark, un-PC and probably the best thing going in professional comedy in the U.S. for a long time. I put them...
by Splabman | Nov 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Give Judd Legum credit for using French Philosopher Roland Barthes (dead since 1980) to better understand the ascendancy of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. An article in ThinkProgress digs up some Barthes material from 1957 on the difference between...