“Any time while I was a slave, if one minute freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it — just to stand one minute on God’s airth [earth] a free woman — I would.” Nearly 85 years before …
A hundred guys and a thousand sheep in Wyoming have two senators. A hundred guys and a thousand polar bears in Alaska have two senators. That seems fair and balanced until you realize 40 million people in California also have two senators. Now some of you will immediately start whining about the original intent of …
I think if I were a conservative — which thankfully I am not — I would be very insulted at how little Trump and his minions think of my intellect. Particularly cheesehead Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who insists that the January 6th insurrectionists were actually disguised members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter. The …
I was 12 years old in the summer of 1962, the first time I really listened to the radio a lot. There were two great American groups that debuted that summer, one out of Southern California and the other out of New Jersey. Of course, the first one was the Beach Boys, who I saw …
I’m pretty sure there is no reason I would ever vote for Mike Pence. He’s not quite part of the Ted Bundy/Dennis Rader wing of the Republican Party (both were Republicans, look it up), but he was Donald Trump’s sidekick for much too long not to have been permanently damaged. The Hoosier politico started out …
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. … I think peace and tranquility will return again.” If you’re familiar with Anne Frank, you might recognize the closing passage of her famous Diary. …
Melvin Kaminsky will celebrate his 95th birthday later this month. He is one of the greatest show business figures of the last century, one of a few people to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and 12 years ago — in the first year of the Obama Administration — he was …
I first wrote this 12 years ago, and all I can say is that what I bemoaned then from California has gotten even worse. Thankfully, Krispy Kreme survived. I was reading an article about restaurant chains that are in danger of going out of business, and one of the ones they mentioned was “Krispy Kreme.” …
Every once in a while you come across bizarre things that either make you say “Huh,” make you spit out your soft drink or make you explode with laughter. Sometimes all three. One of my weaknesses is getting caught up in these clickbait things on Facebook that tell all sorts of not-that-interesting facts, and this …
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When my lovely wife used to leave for work each morning, I nearly always said the same thing to her: “Have a wonderful day.” In the context in which I said this, “wonderful” is a synonym for “terrific” or “great.” I think that’s probably the way most of us use the word “wonderful” these days. …
