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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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Apr 25, 20162 min read
The Oily Deception
My niece Dana from Chicago stayed with me this weekend, and she bought some healthy food from Costco for the four of us, including hubby...
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Apr 19, 20163 min read
The Jesus Jew
Bernie Sanders Many, if not most, of those in the conservative camp of the American electorate are evangelicals who think of the United...
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Apr 10, 20162 min read
Where’s That Water Coming From?
Call him Noah. You know – the guy who warned about a disastrous climatological event about to take place. That was a few years ago – make...
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Apr 10, 20161 min read
Soliloquy
William Shakespeare Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day – and as it approaches, I’m getting...
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Apr 2, 20161 min read
Manalapan Show Slashes Price in Half
THIS JUST IN!!! The show Reflections tonight at the Palm Beaches Theatre in Manalapan is offering its remaining tickets at half price....
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Apr 1, 20164 min read
Autism no measly problem
Robert De Niro The monied medical establishment won a victory this week in its fight against the anti-vaccine movement. Just a day after...
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Mar 25, 20162 min read
Dancin’, Pickin,’ Strummin’ ‘n’ Hummin’
Billy Rogan, kneeling; Chloe Dolandis, white dress; dancers For my book signing appearance at the Rotary Club of Palm Beach on Thursday,...
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Mar 21, 20162 min read
Alas, poor Your. Ick.
The best evidence of the deterioration of quality in our society is, in my view, the misuse of your. Ladies and gentlemen, your is an...
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Mar 13, 20161 min read
Jazz — No Jive
Mark Doyle On Saturday night in the Palm Beaches, jazz was breaking out all O-o-Verrrrr! Swing into spring was the unsung, but...
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Mar 12, 20164 min read
Bernie Better for Blacks
Bernie Sanders If Bernie Sanders got half the black vote, he’d beat Hillary Clinton hands down, in my not-so humble opinion. The Southern...
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Feb 29, 20162 min read
Hark! He speaketh.
Clarence Thomas BULLETIN! Close on the heels of the sudden death of one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most controversial members, another...
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Feb 25, 20164 min read
A Badge on Their Shoulder
This week, I had a date with a judge. A male judge. No, not in a bar – before the bar. The South County Courthouse in Delray Beach,...
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Feb 12, 20163 min read
Environmental Setback
The U.S. Supreme Court’s surprising decision this week to block the Obama administration’s attempt to regulate emissions from coal-fired...
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