“What is something that should be taught in school but isn’t?” There is a scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1986 film “Peggy Sue Got Married” in which an Algebra teacher asks the time-traveling Peggy Sue why she turned in a completely blank paper on a pop quiz. Her response is that she will have no …
I had an odd question pop into my mind recently. What was the happiest day of my life that didn’t involve other people? So that rules out falling in love, wedding days, anything involving children or other family members. As trite or even corny as it might seem at first, the day I came up …
If there’s one thing certain in this life, it’s that every time another lunatic loser breaks loose and kills other Americans, the Amen Chorus of the gun nuts will be all over the media standing up for their rights. So a shooter (fill in name here) killed some (fill in number here) people in an …
Think about this if you will, because the man with these beliefs has at least a slim chance of becoming governor of California today. — Repeal all vaccine and mask mandates in the current pandemic. — Not sure climate change has anything to do with state wildfires. — Ban all abortions. — Repeal all minimum …
RECALL IN CALIFORNIA JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL JOKE Read More »
“If you live long enough, you will lose everyone you ever loved.” I don’t know exactly when I first heard those words, but I do remember the first time they meant something to me. It was Thanksgiving 2008, a very”circle of life” year in my life. In January that year, I lost my job after …
I was more than 2,500 miles from New York and Washington and nearly that far from Shanksville, Pa., 20 years ago today. My first awareness of the attacks came at about 7 a.m. I had gotten ready to leave for word when I turned on my computer to check my email on AOL (yes, the …
REALITY OF 9/11 TOOK 16 YEARS TO REALLY SINK IN FOR ME Read More »
“… let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia …” For all the fuss about the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., this week, the biggest of all the monuments to the Confederacy still stands, east of Atlanta in Stone Mountain Park. It’s a Confederate Mount Rushmore of sorts, carved …
LEE STATUE DOWN IN VIRGINIA, BUT STONE MOUNTAIN REMAINS Read More »
I suppose I shouldn’t be saying anything new about the 9/11 attacks if I don’t have anything new to say, but with Saturday the 20th anniversary, I can at least revisit what I wrote at the 10th anniversary and updated on the 15th. You see, we have become a country where few things really get …
20 YEARS AFTER 9/11 ATTACKS, THINGS KEEP GETTING WORSE Read More »
In 1952, a writer named Bernard Malamud came out with a great book about baseball. In 1984, with the Reagan ’80s at flood tide, Barry Levinson made a film of the book and ruined the story. Maybe it was the difference between eras, the difference between Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan, the difference between the …
Monday was Bob Newhart’s 92nd birthday, and someone suggested that he would be one of the four faces on a Mount Rushmore of great comedians. I can’t disagree with that, but I think it would be a nearly impossible task to pick four comedians without doing a tremendous injustice to at least half a dozen …
