As a longtime New Yorker now transplanted to the Midwest, I am watching the doings at the New York State Legislature with a good deal of interest. The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on a bill that would add New York to a list of a handful of progressive states that have granted...
I’m fairly certain the photo I’ve planted alongside this article has been altered in some fashion to make Mrs. Palin even more provocative than she actually is, which I suppose is pretty silly given the seriousness of someone ostensibly aspiring to the highest office in the land. I use the word ostensibly, because I...
Gee, I was only kinda half kidding a couple of weeks ago when I suggested that the world was upside down a bit with sports turning into really serious if not gloomy business and politics edging closer and closer to becoming little more than hysterical, if salacious entertainment. Now in the course of a...
“The business of America is business,” said President Calvin Coolidge in 1925, and for nearly 100 years we’ve been pledging allegiance to that pithy mantra without ever questioning its continued primacy and legitimacy. The “business” represented in his aphorism is the corporation, which has now been elevated to an exalted place in our national...
I’m not a huge fan of royalty in general or the Royals in particular and so the recent Royal Wedding would have been a distinct pain in the keester had I actually paid any attention to it. I managed to avoid it only with great diligence, but now the flap with President Obama and...
I am convinced there will be a resurgence for my beloved Mets someday, but given the current gloomy situation, I can be forgiven for thinking that someday may be long in coming. The latest dustup, with team owner Fred Wilpon taking pokes at several of his star players in a New Yorker magazine article,...
Forgive the crassness of that declaration, but the widespread news coverage of the impending Rapture on Saturday night has me envisioning a bit off lower-case rapture. And I realize how pathetic that sounds that a grown man would feel compelled to invoke the end of the world in order to foster carnal pursuits, but...
OK, everybody raise their hand. With all of the horrible weather events that have taken place in the last decade or so, how many of you have thought – way deep down – “I wonder if all these storms and floods and hurricanes could somehow be linked to the frantic warnings we’ve been getting...
Grrrrr. Two of my least favorite things reared their ugly heads at right about the same time in recent days, and since it gives me indigestion to write about either of them, I figured I’d get it out of my system and address both of them at the same time. Andre Ethier, a member...
The so-called “Birther” debate makes us all look like idiots. For a while I thought I had a neat two-question template for determining if I needed to spend any time at all discussing anything more important than a recipe for bean dip with somebody I didn’t know: “Do you believe that Barack Obama was...