I didn’t go to the first big concert at the Capital Center. In fact, I didn’t make it to any of the three that opened the arena in December 1973 — the Allman Brothers, the Who or Alice Cooper/ZZ Top. I did see the first big concert of 1974, the huge show featuring Bob Dylan …
“Write me a letter, send it by mail. Send it in care of … the Facebook jail …” Here we go again. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Not complaining, either. While I think there’s something of a twinge of Snowflake in how they look at some posts, the times I’ve been arrested, sentenced …
“This baseball thing is just a battle between billionaires and millionaires.” No, it isn’t. Actually there are few things more annoying than hearing people say this, because it’s playing right into the hands of the people who have all the power. For lack of a better term, let’s call them the billionaires. Not all team …
Rome is known as the Eternal City. Paris is called the City of Light. Both have been important to history for centuries and even millennia, much further back than Western Hemisphere nations have even existed. Despite what folks in Boston or New York might think, there is really only one American city that even approaches …
This is something I first saw and wrote seven years ago. Here it is again with a couple of changes or explanations. Ten Good Questions. Taken from “Inside the Actors’ Studio,” this is the 10-question quiz that closes every interview on the show. Anyone who has watched the show finds him or herself answering these …
During the two generations of the Cold War, the American military had one truly great fear. A Russian Hitler. The fear was that someday, Russia would have an irrational leader, a man who could not be counted on to act in the best interests of the Soviet Union … or the world as a whole. …
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Make no mistake about Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s straight out of the playbook. The playbook from the late 1930s, the playbook of Adolf Hitler. The only difference is that Putin says nothing about lebensraum — living space. If there’s one thing Russia has plenty of, it’s living space. But Putin has said numerous …
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.” I’m no fan of Vladimir Putin, but I will give him credit for one thing. When he purchased Donald Trump, whether …
“Free college? What a crazy idea!” If you live in the U.S., you have almost certainly heard people saying that. You may even have said it yourself. “Hey, nobody gave me free college.” “Hey, I had to pay for my own college. Why should they get it for free?” Well … Shortly after the turn …
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It’s very strange, but I really wish it could be 1961 again. Or at least 1962. Sixty years ago. I was 11 years old in 1961, and I went to school — sixth grade the first half of the year — across the street about half a block up from our house. It was the …
