The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: cruel

  • Schoolyard Picks

    I suspect the ball bounced off my foot.

  • American Cruelty

    You have to eat or be eaten.

  • Security Blanket

    Most children will learn that the world is cruel soon enough.

  • A Wicked Sense

    Now I can’t abide bullies in any form. But it took me a minute.

  • Neurological Methane

    I’m not going to live my life chewing on a fetid stew of insults.

  • Drunken Karaoke

    It’s funny, unless you live next door and are trying to sleep.

  • Do You Know What Your Problem Is?

    Tell me: when a conversation starts that way, is there any chance of it going well? And can a person who is that tactless and cruel really think that he or she has all the answers? It beggars the imagination. The way I see it, we are all like icebergs. Only the very tip of…

  • Nature Doesn’t Clash

    I have a friend who is an artist, and when choosing his color palette for any given creation, he looks to nature for inspiration. He’ll take a leaf or a flower petal, for example, and put it under a microscope, and then use the colors he sees there. I think that’s a brilliant idea. If…

  • Pick on Someone Your Own Size

    Of all the collateral damage caused by our Grand Poobah, I have to say I feel the most sorry for Barron Trump. If he’s not being criticized about being sleepy at 3 in the morning, he’s being called “Poor Little Rich Boy” or being accused of mental health issues. Childhood is hard enough without being…

  • Adult Bullies

    The psychiatric community does not like to place the label of psychopath on children. I suppose that is understandable, because there’s no known cure for psychopathy, and if you get that diagnosis wrong, you could drastically damage that child’s life. No one wants to give up on a child. But the theory is that one…