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Sep 30, 20161 min read
Getting a Kick out of You
The way it works, I give a signed, paperback copy of my book to anybody who donates $20. I sign and ship the book personally to the...
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Sep 21, 20165 min read
Plumbing a Political Quandary
Donald Trump Diehard supporters of Donald Trump for the presidency are beyond persuasion that he would be disastrous for the country. He...
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Sep 19, 20162 min read
Book It.
Hear ye, hear ye! Tomorrow – woops, we’re almost there – you can, if you have a Kindle or compatible device, get my current book for...
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Sep 11, 20162 min read
Stan Kenton Redux
Dennis Noday Stan Kenton had to be smiling in his grave last Tuesday when the Dennis Noday & Lee Harris Superband filled a room at the...
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Sep 8, 20164 min read
Autism and Awful Journalism
Leonard Pitts Jr. A week or so ago, I sent an email to the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., decrying...
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Sep 7, 20162 min read
Freeebook, i.e., Free ebook
You might have heard something on the grapevine about a book called MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died making the rounds...
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Aug 23, 20164 min read
Privatization Prologues
Pat Beall Last week, two events that will alter the social landscape in America made newspaper (there are some left) headlines. One was...
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Aug 16, 20162 min read
Good Bice Books
Bice Ristorante A website on Google says Bice most often is used as a female name in Italy, and pronounced bicha. In English, a similar...
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Jul 27, 20163 min read
State of Anomie
M. William Phelps At the South Florida Book Festival on Saturday, M. William Phelps, a New York Times bestselling author of about 30...
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Jul 15, 20165 min read
Fluoridation Flimflam
“Fluoride vote acknowledges passion, yields to science.” Thus read the headline of an editorial in the Palm Beach Post after the...
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Jun 30, 20162 min read
If a Tree Falls in a Forest …
Mike Norris Jazz Orchestra Get this. The Mike Norris Jazz Orchestra played without cover charge Monday at the American Rock Bar & Grill...
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Jun 22, 20162 min read
A Real Blast
Stan Kenton One of the finest entertainment-and-dining experiences I’ve ever had occurred Monday night at the American Rock Bar & Grill...
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Jun 19, 20164 min read
Going Home
Thomas Wolfe “You can’t go home again,” Thomas Wolfe (the Look Homeward, Angel guy, not Tom of Bonfire of the Vanites fame) wrote some 80...
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Jun 3, 20162 min read
Green, Green Grass of Home
In less than four full days, I will be winging my way from my South Florida redoubt northward to the great and sovereign state of Iowa...
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Jun 3, 20168 min read
Media Provide Fodder for Trump
Michael Gerson Michael Gerson, the well-reasoned, moderately conservative columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column this week...
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May 28, 20162 min read
Bernie Should Be Burned Up
Here’s the headline in the New York Daily News this week: “KING: Hillary Clinton should quit presidential race as email scandal engulfs...
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May 23, 20162 min read
Well, I’ll be dashed!
I have been remiss, and my file of miscues in the mechanics of writing has grown thick. Newspapers, magazines, business communications –...
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May 8, 20162 min read
Unforgettable
Sunnyside Swing Revival It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie, and I’m not about to sin on Sunday, much less Mothers Day. Mom would be dismayed. So I...
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Apr 27, 20161 min read
Sunrise at the Rotary
I’m in a dream where snow is piled up in this parking lot, covering the cars, but out of nowhere mine appears, the snow having been...
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