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No no, they can’t take that away from me …
A big thanks to the Lake Worth Rotary Club for its abundant hospitality and attentive audience for my author At least they can’t stop me...
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Oct 28, 20153 min read
This is progress?
Andy Rooney John L. Lewis I’m having an Andy Rooney moment. You know, the dyspeptic guy who for 33 years closed out each CBS’ 60 Minutes...
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Oct 22, 20151 min read
Hillary wins, GOP loses
Hillary Clinton The House Benghazi Committee grilled Hillary Clinton for 11 hours, minus two breaks, today with the intention, as the...
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Oct 20, 20152 min read
Jazz vs. Politics
Igor Butman The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. That is, they came – not with seven machine guns in a re-enactment of the...
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Oct 16, 20153 min read
GMO, glyphosate and Green: Gee whiz!
Green isn’t green. Alex Green, the chief analyst for the Oxford Club investment newsletter service, defends the Monsanto corporation in...
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Oct 11, 20151 min read
FREE book today
A belated notice that the Kindle version of my novel MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died is available for FREE very...
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Oct 10, 20152 min read
Great jazz — no jive
Nicky Orta Wow, what a performance Friday evening at the recently reopened Bamboo Room in downtown Lake Worth! Talented keyboard player...
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Oct 3, 20153 min read
Punctuate to Communicate
These days, I find myself running into run-on sentences with greater frequency. Seems as though people are too impatient, or lazy, or...
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Sep 27, 20152 min read
Killer of a Deal. FREE book!
MURDER IN PALM BEACH, by me, is about to go FREE! That is, the book will be offered free for one full day beginning at midnight tonight....
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Sep 25, 20152 min read
Book it. It’s FREE!
Friends and neighbors and lovers of literature (I use the term loosely), sometimes in the world of books there is a free lunch. If that’s...
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Sep 24, 20152 min read
Car-lyar Fiorina the Fibber
Mona Charen Paul Krugman and Mona Charen, two syndicated columnists. A recent column by each reminds me of a song: “What a difference a...
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Sep 18, 20154 min read
Bernie and Rachel Trumped
Donald Trump I am going to do something I would never have dreamed of doing, to wit, defend Donald Trump and two other Republican...
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Sep 13, 20154 min read
Be Wary of Vaccines
The You Docs are at it again, touting the wonders of conventional medicine that fly in the face of facts. Real facts, not the kind...
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Sep 9, 20152 min read
Green Is Good (take that, Gordon Gekko)
General Mills headquarters near Minneapolis The newspaper headline read: GENERAL MILLS TACKLES GAS EMISSIONS. Hmmm, I thought, the...
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Sep 1, 20153 min read
A Warm Welcome to Alaska
If this keeps up, it won’t be too long before billboards, websites and the media will be running ads that read something like, “Come to...
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Aug 30, 20152 min read
Cereal killers
The movement is growing. We speak of the trend toward healthier eating. The latest evidence is General Mills’ decision to remove all...
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Aug 24, 20153 min read
Florida Government in the Dark
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Before Republican Rick Scott ran for governor of Florida the first time, in 2010, the voters knew he was a crook:...
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Aug 17, 20153 min read
A Word to the Wise
Writing isn’t the only way to abuse the English language. The spoken word gets pummeled aplenty these days, often by persons who should...
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Aug 13, 20153 min read
Who guards the Fox house?
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly It was quite a matchup in the Republican presidential debate last week, Donald Trump versus Fox News’ Megyn Kelly....
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Aug 8, 20154 min read
Bureau-crazy
It was enough to turn a liberal into a conservative. I just had an experience with government bureaucracy that made me wonder if the...
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