All hell broke loose for Johnny Depp a couple of weeks ago, with an interview he gave to Vanity Fair.  In the article, he stated his strong dislike for photo shoots - standing in front of a camera and posing made him extremely uncomfortable.  And that’s when Johnny stuck his/… Read full post »

It’s somewhat disturbing to me that so many liberals and progressives that I normally see eye-to-eye with, today I am at cross-thoughts with.  Instead of a sober and multi-faceted reaction to the recent killing of bin Laden, people are whoopin’ it up in jubilation.   &ldquo/… Read full post »

I’ll be the first to admit that I tend to come in late – if at all – to whatever is brewing in the national cultural gestalt.  I didn’t watch Seinfeld until it was in reruns.  I’ve never watched American Idol or pretty much any other reality-type televis… Read full post »

I’ve never understood the vigorously optimistic among us.  Not that anyone has asked – but I am generally a lot of fun to be around, or so I’ve been told.  I love to laugh and do so often.  I have a pretty wicked sense of humor and generally speaking, I&r… Read full post »

I’m not a fan of numbers or math.  Although, I do like the digits 3 and 13 – they go with my personality – not evenly divided.  Anyway, on a daily, droning basis, it’s reported that college loan debt is over $800 billion.  There’s about $800 billion… Read full post »

Finally the latest Washington D.C. budget conflagration has died down into simmering embers.   The smoldering wood chips I smell are the recently revealed bipartisan cuts in the deal – programs that help the poor, sick, old, disenfranchised and polluted.  Despite all this… Read full post »

Recently, Glenn Greenwald wrote a terrific piece – “Obama and American Exceptionalism.”  The article primarily concerned political commentators lauding Obama’s attack on Libya and the stars-and-stripes speech he gave announcing this new battle.  Apparently the… Read full post »

There’s been a lot going on recently in our nation’s capital.  A real on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller – or at least the corporate media and the politicians they serve think so – over the funding for the rest of the budget for this year.  It came dow… Read full post »

It takes all kinds – or so I’ve been told.  I suppose that the earth is large enough to provide room for a wide variety of people – all equipped with their particular array of quirks, eccentricities and whatnots.  Recently though, I’ve become totally appalled… Read full post »

This has been going on for a couple of years now – and it really has to stop because it’s getting on my last nerve.

March 9, 2011 – The New York Times – editorial –on the GOP budget bill -

“It is time for the President…to reject their tact… Read full post »

I’ve been reading that food prices are going up – yet once again.  And I don’t even have to read about it to know that ExxonMobil and Chevron and the rest of the oil companies are on their gluttonous way to racking up some more fast cash at the gas… Read full post »

We didn’t watch the Oscars on Sunday.  Instead we were in the middle of watching the Ken Burns documentary on baseball that I had recently taped.  Somewhere along the way though, I paused the tape and watched a few minutes of the awards show.   I tuned in at the momen/… Read full post »

He would have been 97 years old today.  If he were still alive, he probably would have been a frail shell of the man he’d been in his youth, or even later on in his life when I’d known him.  Constant trips to the doctor, or perhaps a nursing home/… Read full post »

 “I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity.  It made me edgy.” ~Robert Redford~   

We needed a new place to live as our apartment was becoming too small and the new upstairs neighbor’s way too noisy.  And there it stood – the only house… Read full post »

At his recent press conference, President Obama began with some opening remarks:

“Just like every family in America, the federal government has to do two things at once.  It has to live within its means while still investing in the future.  If you’re a family… Read full post »

I’ve lived in New York all my life – not that I’m proud of that – it’s just a fact.  Anyway, on a more emotional level, New England suits me better.  I could see myself living further north – maybe near the Kennedy’s in Hyannis or somewhere o/… Read full post »

There’s nothing that shouts religious hypocrisy better than the baptism scene in The Godfather.  While the words of Christian holiness resound, Michael Corleone’s people are on their Christian shooting spree murdering all the heads of the New York mafia families as well as Moe/… Read full post »

When I think of centennial celebrations – my mind always turns to the 1980 movie by John Carpenter – The Fog.  The little seaside town of Antonio Bay was celebrating its 100 year anniversary when all hell broke loose – literally.  It was a story of gold, greed, poli/… Read full post »

The other night I was watching a documentary on JFK.  He gave a speech (don’t recall which one) and he mentioned how we need to focus on science and math in the education of our children.  As I sat there, I was struck by the fact that as a country,/… Read full post »

There’s a question I’ve been pondering the past few days regarding President Obama’s State of the Union address.  Now, it’s a given that there’s an awful lot of stuff in a SOTU – a veritable jambalaya of declarations, plans and ideas.  And to be h… Read full post »

With Sam I could be myself.  He understood more than anyone how it felt to be trapped in one’s skin.  ~  Patti Smith ~ “Just Kids” ~  

Our meeting was foretold by psychics and tarot card readers, yet I truly never saw him coming.… Read full post »

Decades ago, courtesy of our astronauts who boldly went where no man had gone before, I saw a photograph of Earth for the first time.  The sight of our planet, in all of its magnificent splendor, dangling out there in space, filled me with reverent awe.  Yet…at the same… Read full post »

I sincerely have no beef with Jane Fonda.  Whether it’s her politics, marriage choices, public statements or the movies that she’s made…well, she’s fine by me.  Although I followed her earlier movie career in such fare as: Klute, China Syndrome, The Electric… Read full post »

Keith,

As I quite often do, I was watching your program the other evening when inexplicably it was over.  I mean, all over.  Finished.  Finito!  Gone, baby, gone!  Adios amigo!  It was so sudden.  So unexpected.  So…startling.   Fo/… Read full post »

I don’t really watch basketball much anymore.  There was a time though when my daughters and I were really into it – during the second half of the ‘90s.  We were big Knicks fans back in the day.  But then Ewing and Larry Johnson left, and they gave Alan… Read full post »