Ask Howard • 01-20-23
Straight men cruising The Strip; straight women looking for husbands So we meet again, citizens, back full-circle in our horrifically new capsized, amusement-park world, circa 2023: Welcome, January!
Fresh hell start to yet another year hotter, less food and water, and wars’ senseless fodder. Bigger, more buffoonish and more baadass than ever: Global birth rates are in freefall; suicides are skyrocketing, and the fastest-growing age group requiring intense, psychological therapy is teenagers.
Last week, for no reason I can sanely fathom, I decided to close my eyes and just randomly tear out a single page every day from The New York Times.
Was worldwide chaos and anarchy truly the only game in town? Our sole future forward? The blindsiding headlines from my indiscriminately ripped articles of “all the news that’s fit to print” read as follows: “Three quarters of teenagers have seen online pornography by age 17;” “Virginia authorities flummoxed by 6-year-old student’s access to gun;” “In sodden California, thousands ordered to evacuate as the risk of mudslides and floods increases;” “Facing criticism on immigration, Biden visits the southern border,” “G.O.P.
