The Angry Czeck

I’ve begun this post about three different times, and every time I do, it sounds phony. There’s nothing original here. We all liked The Catcher in the Rye. We more than liked it. We loved it; made it a Bible. When we were stupid and horny teenagers, Salinger gave voice to an anger we didn’t [...]

The summer after my first year of college, my angry mom demanded that my brother and I get jobs. “You’re not sitting on your ass wasting my electricity all summer,” is how she might have put it. I was not unaccustomed to summer labors. I started working for my own cash by the age of [...]

He did not cheat the sportswriters who wrote glowingly about his deeds, the owners who paid him handsomely for selling seats and jerseys, or the managers who won games thanks to the 550-ft home runs he artificially muscled out of the ballparks.

I remember it like it was a couple years ago. I’m cruising in the Anger Mobile, on my way home, when NPR reports that a Democratic candidate for President just made a damaging racial gaff. “(Senator Barack Obama) is the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Chaos [...]

Set the new airport body-screening machines to “Awesome” because the Angry Czeck is coming through. Some people are freaking out about a sensible proposal to place full-body scanners in our airports. It’s a violation of privacy! My hoo-ha! My wee-wee! Personally, I’d rather that strangers take a peak at my pecker than have a stranger’s [...]