Jim Leff's Slog

I blame Fred Rogers for the most pernicious American affliction. With the best of intentions, he convinced several generations of children t...

The pipes burst in your house. It's a disaster. Your possessions are soaked, floor boards are failing, and the forces of mold are gleefu...

My approach to political news has been a gradual tuning out. I stopped listening to MAGA ages ago, because I found it 100% performative bad-...

My observation a few weeks ago that jealousy appears long before praise (the other girls will detest you for your beauty even if you can...

I despair at the task of making you understand what drummer Roy Haynes, who just died, meant to jazz. You need to really understand jazz and...

Eight billion people on a planet assuredly proclaiming "I've got this!" while hilariously bungling absolutely everything. It...

A few weeks ago I indexed some useful flips of perspective to better understand this mystifying world. "Selfish people feel overly gen...

I'd finally broken up with a deeply damaged - and damaging - girlfriend who'd inflicted real torture. I had put up with it not becau...

Oddly, I wrote this before the election. Since recent events place this in an entirely diferent context, I'll add links to part 1 and p...

I posted this (as well as my brief acknowledgement that *I* had been misframing Democracy, which you should probably read first) to Faceboo...