Jim Leff's Slog

Swagger is the scarlet letter of mediocrity.

We don't know no one's listening to us because we're not listening.

MAGAs are discovering Trump's a fraud after all, just like they discovered that COVID was real after all, just like they discovered that the cabal of pedophiles (and cover-uppers thereof) was largely on the other side, just as conservatives discovered that

Charles Bukowski noted that "Only boring people get bored.”

In my posting, "Entitlement", I described a guy who treated me with nothing but dehumanized contempt while expecting me to lavish kindness on him (ironically missing the kindness I actually lavished on him because it didn't match the exact scripted kindne…

"Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism."

There's a bit of business that inevitably comes up whenever a friend or acquaintance experiences some level of fame.

The thing you do best, you do substantially less well than you imagine.

One of the omnipresent features of earthly life that completely mystifies me is entitlement.

I've revised and improved this posting from 2023.

There is a level of stupidity that only smart people can attain.

The problem with making an edge case of yourself (in any respect) is that it becomes painfully obvious when people lapse into framing specific "You" as a generalized "Them."

In a recent posting titled "Sharpening", I wrote: Many people can guess the current time to the minute whenever they pop awake in the middle of the night.

How far away is another frame?

A strange form of behavior is becoming more and more common.

The problem with intuition is that it can be hard to distinguish useful intimations from suggestions of what you want to happen, or are afraid might happen.

Mocking old people is like booby trapping the rollercoaster you're queued to ride.

My whole life, I've worked into a headwind because of my looks.

Many people can guess the current time to the minute whenever they pop awake in the middle of the night.

Last week I presented my ludicrously long list of ailments.

Everyone’s trying to understand Trump’s mysterious bond with Putin.

As a child, I once mistakenly pressed the "B" button in the elevator in my grandparent's Miami Beach apartment building, and found myself intruding on the custodial staff at lunch time.

Behold the Hovering Sky Baby Medical specialists — pediatricians and proctologists — probably believe themselves to occupy a higher plane than general physicians.

I am an old hand at not being on TV.

One can't deny an assertion without a reasonable understanding of what's been asserted.