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I used to love watching David Letterman, especially when he made his Top Ten List. I used to do my own for various occasions, trying to be funny and mostly failing, I suppose. I would also do my own list … Continue reading →

Fifty years ago tonight, I made my one and done Times Square New Year’s Eve appearance. Along with two other friends Lou and PJ, I took the IRT 6 train from the Parkchester station in the Bronx to 42nd St- … Continue reading →

As we enter Christmas Week 2019 I am growing nostalgic for some of my recent ways of celebrating Christmas. On this day, for example, the Winter Solstice, I would always post a YouTube of Jethro Tull performing “Ring Out Solstice … Continue reading →

There are so many things that divide us. The sources of our divisions are often deep-seated and irreconcilable, and they are all not of recent origin. Many have been formed decades ago. It seems fitting to start with one of … Continue reading →

I never got the stupidity of Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. This is where the left loses me. It’s not Un-American to wish someone Merry Christmas, and it shouldn’t be offensive either and, if you are, tough shit. I’m … Continue reading →

More than forty years ago, when we had a Republican President who obstructed justice, there were members of the Republican Party who were die-hard Nixon supporters. Nevertheless, they convinced him to step down when impeachment was an eventual reality. These … Continue reading →

If we still remembered history, we would know the poignancy of the word infamy. Those of us who are boomers cannot hear or read the word without thinking of FDR’s speech following the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December … Continue reading →

The Thanksgiving-Christmas Holidays often inspire thoughts of loved ones who have left us. You miss these people every day, but the holidays seem to bring memories to vivid life. Yesterday, as my wife Eileen and I were getting the last … Continue reading →

Hopefully, the retailers of America took in the billions they so desperately need to transform their ledgers from red to black. It is good for America to have a booming holiday gift-buying economy. Where the American motto once declared, “What’s … Continue reading →

    I wrote the following for Thanksgiving 2019. Reading it again made me laugh and cry just thinking about what a simple time it was just one year ago. Well, here we are again soon to be assembled round … Continue reading →