For what it’s worth, 11/18/15
I’ve been busy, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. My conservative friend Joe even challenged me on Facebook: I’m surprised you have been so tight lipped about Paris…not a word. OK. Word. Joe, John Lennon...
View ArticleFor what it’s worth, 11/25/15
The Daily Donald It really is the Daily Donald. As in … every day. Every damn day. Like a bad cold, Fuckface Von Clownstick (h/t Jon Stewart) just won’t go away. The headline on a CNN column yesterday...
View ArticleFor what it’s worth: The gun edition
A weasel of a man named Wayne LaPierre cut a slick video a few weeks ago that pretty much revealed everything we need to know about our wonderful defender of the Second Amendment – the NRA. So let’s...
View ArticleFor what it’s worth, 06/01/16
Stylenote I’ve been awol. Shame on me. Shame on me also for writing awol instead of AWOL, which is AP Style. And since I’m writing this on June 1, 2016, let’s note that a brand new AP Stylebook came...
View ArticleFor what it’s worth, 06/02/16
We didn’t start the fire, until we did The story in my local paper carries the headline: Yeshivas fight back, claim county inspections ‘improper’, ‘draconian’ And no, this is not about the missplaced...
View ArticleFor what it’s worth, 06/03/16
Celebrate! Hey kids! What day is it? It’s NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY! Who says there’s no good news? Now some may consider this is an occasion to go to Dunkin’ or Bess Eaton or Tim Hortons, but … really? Do...
View ArticleJust a dad, with his little girl
I collect handshakes. Hank Aaron, Smokey Robinson, Buddy Guy, Sam Moore, David Halberstam, Bill Kunstler, Hubert Sumlin … Getting a photo, or god forbid a selfie, is not what matters most. It’s shaking...
View ArticleMemories of The Greatest
This wasn’t supposed to happen. Sure, I was just 13, but I read the New York Post, the New York Times, the Daily News, the Herald Tribune and Sports Illustrated and I watched TV and I listened to the...
View ArticleWe can be heroes
You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today. Those 15 words — and the 7,102 that followed — were spoken in a courtroom by a now 23-year-old woman to the man who raped...
View ArticleFor my mom, Bobbe Bromberg
Time, as previously noted, always wins. Thursday morning, it beat my mom. But, like my dad before her, my mom took time into extra innings. Lots and lots of extra innings. Time took a licking; my mom...
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