Jim Leff's Slog

There are two ways to want for nothing. The first is to get everything, and the second is to opt out of wanting. We are so culturally co...

The following posting from August 2018 was was my most literarily ambitious—and least popular—posting. It's a challenging read, much as ...

To my Republican friends: The Democrats may be incredibly annoying, but they're not (by and large) a nest of pedophiles. The pedophil...

Everything feels great on the way up, even if you're still far down. Everything feels awful on the way down, even if you're still ...

My waitress was slow bringing the migas and potatoes to accompany my fish. It happens. But the restaurant's wizened, cranky Portuguese o...

In my previous post—a meditation on creativity titled "Steve Jobs' Black Turtleneck" —I proposed a cure for the age-old proble...

Nothing is the womb of Something. No one seems to properly understand why Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks. Even Jobs was vague about it....

"Tesla shareholders have voted to approve a plan to motivate Elon Musk with a bonus of as much as $1 trillion in additional stock. Musk...

It's a foregone conclusion that human beings communicate . It seems obvious when we emit stylized vibrations at each other and outcomes ...

I don't show up with "do you know who I am?" gravitas. Maybe I'm doing something wrong—I honestly don’t know—but I never s...