Dave Shulman

As we raise our fists to plunge the screwdrivers of impeachment into the frontal lobes of our collective media-trance, let us return one last time to the kinder, gentler America of 1987, when big-tobacco lawyer Kenneth Starr was interviewed by 60 Minutes’ Diane Sawyer: "Public media," said Starr, "should not......

SIX BILLION TEENAGERS FLEXING THEIR OPPOSABLE THUMBS: The early teens tend to be more difficult than the late teens; the twenties should be a bit easier, we say, we hear; the thirties easier still. In our forties or fifties we’ll be comfortable with our curriculum; when asked, we won’t remember......

Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, wrote that each of us has one true freedom: the freedom to decide how we feel about whatever situation we're in. That's it, that's all. "Freedom," marketing term, has come to assert three additionals: the freedom to use "freedom" as an international marketing......

Whether of stone or of gold, whether bleeding or cold, from their bottoms to their cockles to the homes where they is, we find it in them to follow them, break them, change them, eat them out to their content, wearing them on our sleeves until we listen to them......

Every holiday has its optimal costumes. Christmas is pajamas and a robe, Groundhog Day a suit and tie, Yom Kippur a dark, propellerless beanie. As Halloween costumes tend to focus on scariness, and as scariness varies from year to year, I thought I'd be festive and topical this week by......

Once upon a time there was a man named Multinational Corporate Interests who liked to play with dolls. His favorite doll looked like a geriatric Raggedy Andy and was named Reagan. One day, Multinational decided to dress up Reagan as President of All the Land. But there was a problem:......

Happy birthday, Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890-August 19, 1977). Who would've guessed that 108 years later (and lacking a DNA-binding domain) you'd promote epidermal cell fate by repressing transcription of proneural AS-C genes (Paroush, 1994) in fruit flies. The Sounds of Groucho (https://www.sirius.com/~rickc/groucho2.htm) is a fine, small gathering of high-quality......

One day I had a real nice lunch. And went shopping. Actually the shopping was first, then the lunch. Both were real nice. My name is Dave and I had a real nice lunch after shopping. Then I went shopping more — more after lunch. Not a lot of shopping,......