Imagine being someone not only regarded as one of the all-time greats in your profession but also being one who is almost universally beloved among your peers. Odds are pretty good that your name is Charles Schulz. For 50 years, Schulz entertained the word every day with his comic strip “Peanuts.” The world? You bet. …
MANY YEARS ON, ‘PEANUTS’ still the GOLD STANDARD Read More »
I felt like watching Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan this afternoon, and since the last five times I felt like this I watched “Joe vs. the Volcano,” I decided to go a different direction. I don’t think I had seen “You’ve Got Mail” since its theatrical run in 1998. The whole America Online thing was …
So tell me please, when is Black Friday? I know it used to be the day after Thanksgiving, when people got in line outside Walmart and waited all night for the store to open at 6 a.m. for Christmas shopping bargains. There were as many is 1,500 people in line for the five big-screen TV …
LOOKS LIKE ‘BLACK FRIDAY’ MIGHT BE A DYING TRADITION Read More »
Thanksgiving might just be the biggest mixed blessing of a holiday when it come to families. It’s an opportunity to get together with friends and family members you don’t see at all for the rest of the year. Of course, that can be a mixed blessing, especially if some of your relatives belong to the …
We go round and round about what is a right and what is a privilege. So much of what we argue involves money, whether tax money should be spent to help the less fortunate. But there’s one thing that should be very simple and shouldn’t cost anything in a free and peaceful country. People should …
WHY CAN’T AMERICANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO FEEL SAFE? Read More »
In 19 days, I will have been living on this earth for 73 years. I wasn’t alive for chattel slavery and I wasn’t around for the Holocaust. But I don’t think there was ever a time in my life when there was as much deep-down hatred, such irrational hatred, among Americans as we have now. …
WE’RE SO FULL OF HATE ALL WE CAN DO IS GET ANGRY Read More »
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have three things going for him. First off, he’s not Donald Trump. Second, he’s sort of clever. Third, he’s comparatively young, a year younger than Donald Trump … Junior. Of the three, the one that may come back to haunt him is the second one. As with many conservatives, …
COULD GOP RACE COME DOWN TO GEEZERS VS. GOOBERS? Read More »
I’m trying to remember the last time I read a newspaper. That might sound strange. I subscribe to both the New York Times and the Washington Post, and I spend a couple hours a day reading them. So what’s the problem? The last time I actually held a Times in my hands was five years …
PAPER COPIES OF GREAT NEWSPAPERS BECOMING EXTINCT Read More »
When I think of the few current television shows I enjoy watching, it’s a pretty short list. In fact, there are more old shows I missed the first time around that I’m watching now then there are current shows. I’m in the third of six seasons of ’90s show “Chicago Hope,” which I remember liking …
IT’S NO ‘MASTERPIECE THEATRE,’ BUT I LIKE ‘YELLOWSTONE’ Read More »
I wish I liked horror movies more. Otherwise, I would be a lot more excited about the fact that Donald Trump is going to inflict another campaign upon the American people. His campaign kickoff would have included a perfect scene for a horror movie or maybe just a disaster movie. The room at Mar-A-Lago was …
