It had all the earmarks of being a classic boy-meets-girl episode, and I think it unfair to assign any blame to me for the way…
Posts published by “Flynn Washburne”
I heard an interview with Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz not long ago in which he proclaimed — and this is a direct…
Prison is a young man's game. Or woman's; I don't want to take a sexist position here, but I will take an ageist one in…
When one comes to prison—and in saying I in no wise mean to suggest that you, the reader, ever would, or should, travel down that…
I recently finished writing something that caused me, after doffing my writer's cap and donning the chapeau d'critique, to say: Dude, this is boring. Boring?…
The other night I was feeling a little peckish after one of our less fulfilling dinnertime repasts, the dreaded Meatball Tray. They've got it half…
On the violence spectrum — being a propensity for, attraction to, or likelihood of erupting in same — 0 being Gandhi-like peacefulness and 6 being raging,…
As I write this, we are smack dab in the midst of March Madness — the NCAA basketball tournament, for those of you disinclined to…
"Guns don't kill people," said my opponent in the "debate." "People kill people." He delivered the kicker with a self-satisfied smirk and held out his…