by aaron | Jan 8, 2019 | blog
As is our custom here at AndWhyNot?, we’d like to pause and acknowledge that on this day 83-years ago, Elvis Aron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. In a time when much is stained a muddy, yellow-brown with the fecal detritus of our political...
by aaron | Jan 7, 2019 | blog
As the government shutdown continues into its third week, President Trump has alluded to invoking his ability to cite Emergency Powers to allocate funds for his pet project, the border wall. A recent Times article analyzed what would be involved with that process....
by aaron | Jan 3, 2019 | blog, Essays
The Emperor didn’t eat just any ketchup with his steak and potatoes. The Emperor ate Heinz ketchup with his steak and potatoes. ‘Bring out the Heinz, bring out the best,’ The Emperor liked to say. It should be a song, like those...
by aaron | Sep 7, 2018 | blog, Essays
“The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.” —from, I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the...
by aaron | Mar 28, 2018 | blog, Essays
When you live in a city you’re surrounded by all sorts of strange and wonderful things: buildings and buses and statues and sirens and the most varied and curious panoply of people, including homeless ones. Lots and lots of homeless...
by aaron | Mar 10, 2018 | blog, Essays
“We kind of gave him—‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here.'” —Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, on Donald Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels Jesus and the parable of the Mulligan (The Gospel According to...