It rained in Manhattan on our 60th wedding anniversary. Lightning, thunder, a relentless downpour, the whole flashing, roaring, drenching package of a storm that pounded over West 44th Street like the drums of eternity. I took it as God's recognition of Cinelli's endurance. In the vast...
It's hard to believe that almost 40 years after the humiliating end of the Vietnam War Jane Fonda is still held responsible. Not for our defeat but for committing what a small group of veterans regard as a treasonous act in her visit to Hanoi...
When I grow up I want to be a political commentator like Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann and shout in everyone's face. I will holler at the masses from television and radio stations and from street corners. I will yell at passing buses and taxis...
Once more the guns of America have roared across the land, leaving a trail of bodies, blood, tears and the terrible acknowledgment of our national heritage. We're a gun-totin' culture, partner, and it ain't just the cowboys who are drawing on each other. Parents are...
Thank God Oscar Night has come and gone with all of its suffocating hyperbole, ever-deepening cleavage, breathless fans and endless pre, post and live television coverage. I'm not sure I could take another day of Mickey Rourke trying to smile but looking vaguely like a...
September 30, 2005, my birthday night. I was in London, teaching securitization, missing Sylvain, browsing the news on the internet...