No Small Potatoes
“You say potato, i say potato. Tomato, tomato, potato, potato. Let’s call the whole thing off….” This Gershwin song loses its lilt right at the end. Sometimes, wrangling over the meaning of words isn’t small potatoes—it can be illustrative of what Philip Rieff called a “deathworks.” As go words, so go civilizations.
Ebb Tide
Michael Metzger
June 21, 2010
By Mike Metzger & John Seel Tides rise and fall. A rising tide lifts all boats. The converse however is reality for engaged couples. Ebb tides drop all boats. Most couples think that they can ignore the tides. They can’t. Consider any engaged couple in the U.S. These couples tend to be woefully naïve about…