Hats off to Larry, he broke your heart Just like you broke mine when you said we must part He told you lies now it’s your turn to cry cry cry Now that Larry said goodbye to you ~Del Shannon Arlen Specter is a detestable swine. Next to Teddy Kennedy, he, for me, is the most loathsome creature ...
Fear and longing for the 1970s. Most of us, I suspect, are rather nervous these days. One cannot help but wonder, if we are, indeed, experiencing the 21st century equivalent of 1929 or 1930"and if 1939 isn"t too far away. There is a strange feeling of disconnect in the air: for those of ...
I am not really "with it." My taste in clothes"formal or otherwise"runs the gamut from 1920 to 1960, as does my taste in cocktails, bars, and restaurants. Reasonably au courant in literature, my taste in music is hopeless: big bands, Strauss waltzes, the "American songbook," ...
It has never ceased to amaze me that, as our stalwart editor commented to me, "it reveals much about our age that the term "adult fun" evokes pornos and strapons and not black-tie outings and champagne." Indeed it does. As this writer lamented in an earlier piece, there seems to be ...
The Damn Boomers Are Ruining All the Fun! In the midst of all the bad news"political, economic, and military"clustering around the memory of 2008 and the first few weeks of 2009, this writer received several shocks which"trivial as they may seem"have as great significance as ...
As all the world knows, the Writers" Guild of America is on strike against the studios and the networks. This television season is a wreck; next year's is apparently over before it has begun.The Golden Globes were reduced to a terse news conference, similar in format to Mr. Blackwell's annual ...
Is America an empire? Are empires always evil? Are Americans suited to the job of creating a empire--evil or otherwise? First, it's essential to examine the notion of Empire itself, beginning with the first in the West--the ...
The neocon-led Frenzy of hatred against the French has deep roots in the worst, most profoundly leftist aspects of American culture. Here's one Franco-American who'd like to yank those ...
As we watch Gordon Brown prepare to follow Tony Blair's path into the sands of Levantine catastrophe, I am led to reflect on Blair's lasting legacy for Britain. To be sure, there is much rich material to choose from. Memories of his early years in office flood the mind"his demented smile, for ...
One night in 1962, on the Tonight Show, Criswell had declared that "I predict that President Kennedy will not run for reelection in 1964, because of something that will happen to him in November 1963""a prediction many others of the ESP fraternity discovered that they had made only ...
