Larry Livermore

What Really Matters

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. – Oscar Wilde Everybody – except maybe comedians –

A bit of a brouhaha has erupted over a brief passage in Aaron Cometbus’ brilliant tour diary In China With

It shouldn’t be surprising that a certain mystique has grown up around Aaron Cometbus. As a writer who seldom subjects

They say – and this is a case where I think they may be right – that one of the

This past Monday was the seventh anniversary of my father’s death. Were he still alive, he would have been 98

My nephew just turned 15, and I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t related to him, I’d be telling

It’s no secret that I spend a lot of time on the internet. Maybe too much. Who knows? I have

Apparently Amy Chua has got people up in arms with her controversial “Tiger Mother” concept of child rearing. Having run

December 1967, with the bleak gray harshness of a Michigan winter just beginning to bite. I was hanging out at

Just when it seemed Sarah Palin had, pardon the expression, dodged a bullet with respect to her culpability in lowering