January 30, 2020 By Mickey Friedman So many reasons he thought he’d get it this time. The booming stock market. The remarkable peace treaty with Chairman Kim. Who. to please his friend Donald, dumped his nuclear weapons in the ocean.…
Tag: Climate Crisis
Bird By Bird
October 11, 2019 By Mickey Friedman One bird, two birds, three birds, four. Five birds, six birds, seven birds, more. More birds than I can count. I can’t imagine three billion birds. I’ve had a canary, a parakeet, and for…
Do Unto
Mickey Friedman September 30, 2019 My head hurts. My heart aches. I am the son of an Italian Catholic mother, raised in part by nuns, and a Hungarian Jewish father, whose father wanted him to be a Cantor. The Depression…
Little Penguins
September 2, 2019 Mickey Friedman Current Events. The only time in school we actually talked about what was happening in our world. These days I can’t bear the bad news descending upon us like the worst of Berkshire fogs. Enveloping…
More Faster
By Mickey Friedman February 16, 2019 Like the soon-to-be profusion of pot shops here in my used-to-be Best Small Town in America, my world, our world, changes more faster than ever. For the good in small ways, but the very…
They’re Not Here Anymore
By Mickey Friedman December 17, 2018 Many will ignore the latest reports about the climate crisis. Some, like our fearful leader, will profess: “I don’t believe.” So let’s shift the focus to some other critical things that are happening. That…
Get Back Loretta
November 3, 2018 By Mickey Friedman I’m guessing most people won’t get this: “by 2100, global sea level rise would be 10 cm lower with global warming of 1.5°C compared with 2°C. The likelihood of an Arctic Ocean free of…
Think Penguin
By Mickey Friedman December 22, 2017 Ever since Trumphoria descended over the land I’ve done a fairly lousy job as the volunteer Communications Director for Penguins United. But the time has come to dispense with Natalia Veselnitskaya and Donald Trump…
The Great Dying Two
By Mickey Friedman December 11, 2017 It was called “The Great Dying.” Peter Brannen described it in the New York Times: “The planet’s most profound catastrophe struck 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, killing 90…
Trumplexa
By Mickey Friedman June 23, 2017 I recently moved and had to give up DirecTV. And surrender my remote control which knew how to skip commercials. Now with Time Warner I’m seeing TV commercials I never knew existed. Like the…
Happy Trails
By Mickey Friedman June 10, 2017 I’m at Fuel by seven, and with the added enthusiasm of espresso, quickly traveling the happy trails of our world. My friends fly; but those days are mostly gone for me. I’ve come full…
Putin v Penguins
By Mickey Friedman May 25, 2017 It’s not just John Podesta and the Dems. Or the French who’ve been hacked. Putin is after my penguin friends. For months, the website of Penguins United has been targeted. Hackers are trying an…