• Month: March 2025

    Jimmy Buffett taught me to play guitar — then life gave me the middle finger

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    Jimmy Buffett taught me to play guitar — then life gave me the middle finger

    I was supposed to keep this top secret — and very few people know this, so don’t go texting it to anyone at The Atlantic or Pete Hegseth — but Jimmy Buffett taught me how to play guitar. Seriously.  In fact, it’s so top secret that not even Jimmy himself knew he was my guitar teacher. It’s just as well because, quite frankly, he didn’t do such a great job. I wonder if Jerry Reed might’ve done better. While my dad taught me the few basic chords any 9-year-old kid needs to survive on the honky tonk circuit — G, […]

    We need more than just donkeys and elephants

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    We need more than just donkeys and elephants

    Many Americans — and by “many” I mean me and some lady named Gladys in Topeka — long for an alternative to our nation’s current two-party system. With so many Democrats determined to shoot themselves in the foot at every turn and finding new ways to whine, and with Republicans lacking integrity and spine to stand up to authoritarianism and oligarchy, the two-party system has hit a wall. The only thing Democrats and Republicans can agree upon these days is that they don’t want any third parties at the table. Awesome! Something that can bring them together! And they said […]