
The lion in the corner
I do not trust any politician who flouts his or her presumed religious faith: hypocrites braying on street corners — not the way their presumed man-god instructed them: in the closet.
So now the book banners have come for Amanda Gorman. Well, poets are dangerous, aren’t they? Especially if they’re young, gifted and Black.
I do not trust any politician who flouts his or her presumed religious faith: hypocrites braying on street corners — not the way their presumed man-god instructed them: in the closet.
A fatuous front-page article on immigration in a recent edition of The New York Times shows the extent to which willful ignorance and kneejerk-ism have neutered our national mind.
Millions of Americans adopted dogs to try to survive the Covid epidemic, so I thought I’d tell you the best dog story I ever heard. I know it’s true because I got it from a nun.
Ever been in a situation where everyone thinks you’re a sleaze, but you know you’re not? Let me tell you what happened to me on a New York City subway.
The recent story of a meatball made from woolly mammoth protein is old news to this reporter.
I love making friends with strangers from all over the world. It’s easy to do, if you smile and ask a few polite questions.
Day by day it becomes more difficult to write anything new or different about our country. Perhaps it’s because the figures who hog the space on our front pages no longer seem human, but puppets.