Originally from 2014. *** “Let us go to the banks of the ocean where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee, long ago I used to be a young man but dear Margaret remembers that for me …”— “THE DUTCHMAN,” Michael Peter Smith For the last few days, I have been listening to at least a …
I wrote this piece in 1998 in the middle of my five years as a California newspaper columnist. It will be one of the pieces in a collection I’m compiling called “Humor and Heart: 40 Years as a Columnist” that will be published later this year. I hope you enjoy it. *** I’m being stalked. …
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“We are living through what feels like the end of America.” I never thought I would agree with Ginni Thomas on anything. In fact, learning I feel the same way about something with the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas is almost as bad as discovering that America’s Rodent, Dinesh D’Souza, is a distant cousin. Thankfully, …
There was never a time in my life that I met as many fascinating people as I did between 1996 and 2001, the five years I wrote a column three times a week for a California newspaper. More than 20 years later, living on the other side of the country, I wonder what happened to …
“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” Heroes come from the strangest place, and they aren’t always universally worthy. Sam Ervin was an American hero when he chaired the Senate Watergate Committee in the summer …
I originally wrote this piece 13 years ago. Came across it today and was actually stunned at how changes since 2009 have almost made that America look like the good old days. Internet shopping is killing even the malls. *** “This used to be a hell of a good country.”— Jack Nicholson in “Easy Rider,” …
“January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump made that statement. Yesterday. Congressional Republicans weren’t any better. Their reaction to the first session of the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection was to hold a press briefing blaming …
I certainly hope all the work Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are doing to rejuvenate the Ku Klux Klan is being appreciated by their fewllow scum. Boebert and Greene are two of the most famous female Trumpanzees, and neither of them have particularly distinguished themselves in the House of Representatives. Boebert first became known …
What’s the one thing that has the greatest effect on a president’s popularity that he has least effect on? That’s easy. Gas prices. A little more than two years ago — at the depths of COVID-19 — I was able to fill my gas tank for less than $20. I didn’t find myself praising Donald …
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“One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. …
