We all know the name of our national anthem, but actually there are three different songs people seem to love that could fill that purpose. “The Star Spangled Banner” might be the strangest of them, actually being an ode to a flag in a long-ago war. Its melody was originally a British drinking song, “To …
Subtlety? We don’t do subtlety. We’re Americans. We’re not particularly good at nuance, either. There’s a reason the acronym KISS originated here. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, tens of millions of of Americans will receive checks from the government, whether they need them or not. They’re mistakenly being called …
Wouldn’t it seem reasonable in a democracy that people running for office would want eligible voters to cast their ballots? Even if they don’t, wouldn’t it seem logical that they would pay lip service to obeying the will of the voters? Especially if they’re trying to convince people that they’re the party of the common …
In an alternate reality not so far away: April 1953, SPANDAU PRISON — Former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, spending life in prison for war crimes, announced today he was withdrawing his book, “Mein Kampf,” from publication. Hitler said he no longer believed what he had written and did not want his former racist attitudes to …
When it comes to movies/films/picture shows, has there ever been a remake of a great one that somehow improved on the original? As someone who has watched literally thousands of movies, I can’t think of one. The website Insider did a list of the top 50 films of all time, based on reviews. It’s actually …
“The world doesn’t make any sense to me any more. What’s going on? There are babies lying around in the streets. There are people living in boxes. There are people ready to shoot you if you look at them. And we’re getting used to it. The world is so nuts, it makes me wonder about …
In January 1980, something I had hoped would last a lifetime … didn’t. I had just turned 30, and my marriage ended. Things had been crummy between us for more than a year, and my wife said we needed to separate for a while but maybe things would work out down the line. They didn’t. …
Say you’re the governor of a state. Your political party’s bumbling left millions of your voters without electricity, heat or water during a horrific winter storm. Several dozen of them died, a number that’s minuscule in a state of nearly 30 million people. Unless, of course, you’re one ohem or you love someone who’s one …
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That’s the way it was during the days of the Old West, or at least in 1962 when John Ford made “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” As for now, not so much. We’ve got people making up stories out of whole cloth to make themselves appear …
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Some years back, I was living in California and our granddaughter was visiting us for the first time. She didn’t come alone. Madison, who now goes by Artemis, was just two months old. I mention this story because I had just seen in the paper that the oldest woman in America had died at the …
