“I don’t know why you don’t live it up all the time when dying’s just around the corner, but you don’t. You’d think you would, but you don’t. I don’t know why.” Everybody dies. A cliche, sure. But maybe a little less of a cliche than the old saw about death and taxes. I remember …
Three of the four people in this picture are dead. I think the tree is still alive. The three adults in this picture were born in 1895, 1895 and 1927. I attended the funerals of the first two — my maternal grandparents — and I’m really not 100 percent sure about the third one. The …
It’s difficult enough to name one child. Imagine having to come up with names for three at the same time. Mother Pep came up with Manny. Moe and Jack, a trio that made a lot of money. Donald Duck’s sister — or sister-in-law — came up Huey, Dewey and Louie, who were actually more famous …
Came across an old favorite movie of mine the other day. I have seen “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” numerous times, but it never seems old or boring to me. It’s got great acting, wonderful cinematography and an exceptional screenplay. It won four Academy Awards, which is outstanding for a Western. And as much …
“My blood is the vaccine …” All right, who had “Trump declares himself God” on their 2020 bingo card? If you also have “Housefly spends two minutes on Pence’s head,” you’re going to be tough to beat. What’s the prize? You get to fast-forward to 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31st. The odds are at least …
You may have heard this expression: “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” If you’re one of the people who fell for that old email scam about millions of dollars tied up in Nigeria, you certainly know of what I speak. The thing that was particularly sinister about that one was …
I was in the drugstore the other day when I saw something that made me think. It was on the pharmacy counter, an incentive for getting a flu shot or some such thing. An assortment of small packages of candy — Peanut M&Ms, Nestle’s Crunch bars and … wait for it … Junior Mints. I …
“These times are so uncertain, there’s a yearning undefined and people filled with rage. We all need a little tenderness, how can love survive in such a graceless age?” Something very strange happened to me this morning. I got out of bed, read the news about Donald Trump testing positively for the Coronavirus and decided …
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left.” It could have been worse. He could have said there were “very fine people” in the right-wing group that calls itself the Proud Boys. Yes, it could have been worse. But not much. …
$750. That’s right, $750. By now, most people have either seen or heard about the story in the New York Times about Donald Trump’s taxes. They know that in both 2016 and 2017, Trump filed returns saying his total federal income tax liability was only $750. They know that in 10 of the 15 years …
