Of all the different ways I would describe myself if someone asked me, there is one quality I have that I take no pride in at all. In fact, it’s the one that matters the least to me. Being white. In point of fact, my skin — and the skin of everyone else who isn’t …
“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” I think I was about 10 years old the first time I saw a theatrical production of “Our Town.” It was a story of ordinary life in New Hampshire in the early days of the 20th century. an amazing production that left almost everything you …
“Socialism — it starts with democracy. That’s the ticket for the left. They want to push this idea of democracy, which turns into socialism, which turns into communism in every instance.” I had never heard of the guy who said this until I saw it on Facebook today. Ryan Kelley is running for the Republican …
The Louvre, Johann Strauss, Mickey Mouse, Mahatma Gandhi, Fred Astaire, Whistler’s Mother, Dante’s Inferno, Pepsodent … Or how about Jimmy Durante’s nose, the National Gallery, a Bendel bonnet, a Coolidge dollar or Camembert? Those 13 people, places and things were all mentioned in a popular song, back when our popular culture was still a culture. …
Many of the folks who have been fighting to overturn Roe v Wade for years have other things on their agenda. Same-sex marriage. Interracial marriage. Transgender rights. Extramarital sex. Contraception. Just ask them. Some of these people will openly admit that no one should be having sex unless they want to have a baby, and …
A little more than two years ago, when the pandemic began killing off Americans, I had a strange thought. I remember hearing how lethal COVID-19 was, particularly for older people with compromised health, and I remember what went through my mind. “I know how I’m going to die.” I was 70 years old, extremely overweight …
“We are being forced into a corner by these enemies of the People. If it is civil war they want, they will get it in spades. Perhaps the best way to pull us back from the brink is a good public lynching.”— DAVID DIETRICH, Virginia Republican official It may or may not surprise you to …
The National Lampoon magazine may no longer exist, which is something of a tragedy. There were so many wonderful things about it, from “Mrs. Agnew’s Diary” to Vinny Shinblind, the invisible sex maniac. There were stories that became movies and magazine parodies that were unsurpassed. But it was the Letters to the Editor section that …
As much as I hate to admit it, the apparently successful 50-year crusade to reverse Roe v Wade isn’t about protecting children or even babies. It’s about controlling women. and always has been. When Roe gave American women the right to safe and legal abortions in 1973, guess what other unrelated right they got a …
When I was little, back in the days of Howdy Doody, Davy Crockett and the Mouseketeers, I used to ask my mother a question. If there is Mothers Day and Fathers Day, why isn’t there a Children’s Day? Of course her response was that every day is Children’s Day. Whether that’s true or not, mothers …
