I was 12 years old in the summer of 1962, the first time I really listened to the radio a lot. There were two great American groups that debuted that summer, one out of Southern California and the other out of New Jersey. Of course, the first one was the Beach Boys, who I saw …
I’m pretty sure there is no reason I would ever vote for Mike Pence. He’s not quite part of the Ted Bundy/Dennis Rader wing of the Republican Party (both were Republicans, look it up), but he was Donald Trump’s sidekick for much too long not to have been permanently damaged. The Hoosier politico started out …
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. … I think peace and tranquility will return again.” If you’re familiar with Anne Frank, you might recognize the closing passage of her famous Diary. …
Melvin Kaminsky will celebrate his 95th birthday later this month. He is one of the greatest show business figures of the last century, one of a few people to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and 12 years ago — in the first year of the Obama Administration — he was …
I first wrote this 12 years ago, and all I can say is that what I bemoaned then from California has gotten even worse. Thankfully, Krispy Kreme survived. I was reading an article about restaurant chains that are in danger of going out of business, and one of the ones they mentioned was “Krispy Kreme.” …
Every once in a while you come across bizarre things that either make you say “Huh,” make you spit out your soft drink or make you explode with laughter. Sometimes all three. One of my weaknesses is getting caught up in these clickbait things on Facebook that tell all sorts of not-that-interesting facts, and this …
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When my lovely wife used to leave for work each morning, I nearly always said the same thing to her: “Have a wonderful day.” In the context in which I said this, “wonderful” is a synonym for “terrific” or “great.” I think that’s probably the way most of us use the word “wonderful” these days. …
The older you get, the more people you lose. The more people you miss. The first person I lost wasn’t because of death. I lost my father when I was 2 years old because he left my mother. I never saw him again and I never learned very much about him. I can’t really say …
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Apparently Donald Trump did not have his pants on backward when he addressed North Carolina Republicans Saturday. Photos made it on line after the event that purported to show Trump with his pants bunched weirdly in the front and without a visible zipper. The photos became so popular they trended on Twitter as #TrumpPants, and …
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“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. …
