I was born in a time when women were little more than their husbands’ property. I don’t need to go into the history of the women’s movement, but it ought to be fairly shocking that American women couldn’t get credit in their own names until 1974. They have consistently been paid less than men for …
I wish I could understand why so many people seem to believe in the most bizarre conspiracy theories. My closest friend introduced me to the first major one of our lifetime, the “Who killed JFK?” conspiracy that started in the late ’60s and is pretty much still around. Dozens if not hundreds of books have …
I wrote the following manifesto more than 13 years ago, with the help of a dozen or so other contributors in the search for a political party that could find a middle ground between Democrats and Republicans.If you read it, you will see that issues that have become much more prominent since 2007 aren’t even …
“People are tired of Covid. People are tired of hearing Fauci and…all these idiots who got it wrong…This guy’s a disaster.”— Trump on Dr. Anthony Fauci “You turn on CNN, that’s all they cover: Covid, Covid, pandemic, Covid, Covid, Covid… You know why? They’re trying to talk everybody out of voting. People aren’t buying it, …
If there was ever a baseball writer better than the Washington Post’s Thomas Boswell, I can’t think of one. There are certainly others in the conversation. Roger Kahn, Roger Angell, Ring Lardner (from a much earlier era). I love Mark Harris’s four books about Henry Wiggen and the New York Mammoths. But Boswell is just …
“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 1928. 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 …
