Bird, Rick
It was titled “Don’t Listen to Your Mother.” I took him to the men’s room at a nearby Thruway rest stop. I started giving him advice, secure in the belief his mother wouldn’t enter the men’s room—especially since we had left her at home. He looked at the diary and yelled...
I wanted take a picture, but my phone camera wouldn’t capture the sparkle in the waning light. Then I saw the mushroom tree—a dead oak with its upper half blown to the ground many years ago. What’s left stands there by the side of the trail. It is about 15 feet tall, 3 ...
So Congress may pass new rules if it so chooses, but for a change providing adequate funding for enforcement would go a long ways towards truly ending the transgressions. Any good cop can tell you how to go about correcting the situation. Why can’t Congress and successive administrations figu...
“In effect, the citizen who murdered his wife’s lover was sought by a team of detectives, two men. But he who killed a cop was sought by 32,000.” That’s why the Mafia tried to bribe cops, but never killed them. Second, don’t expect the police to do for you what they’...
There is no portrait of the early internet as definitive as Hackers, Iain Softley’s Gibsonian fairytale of a clique of high-school hackers with nicknames like “Crash Override” and “Acid Burn” who unwittingly involve themselves in a cybercrime plot to steal millions from an oil company. ...
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Just as the comedian Eddie Izzard wouldn't be half as funny if he weren't British, no band from the world's last remaining superpower could have pulled this song off. --William Bowers 068: Coldplay"Clocks"[Capitol; 2003] When people talk shit on Coldplay, they call the band "lite ...
When it comes to dating, Blanche runs a poor second to her visiting niece Lucy, who's out with a new man all night every night: a doctor she met on the plane, a college interviewer who flies her to the Bahamas, and a trendy vice squad cop. When Blanche calls Lucy on her behavior...