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Books, Etcetera
An ancillary benefit from doing book signings is the opportunity to meet the most interesting people. I’ve been signing my novel Murder...
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Jul 5, 20174 min read
American Health Care Mess
Pundits like Mona Charen are not writing on behalf of their readers or their country. Their dissertations are guided by partisan...
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May 29, 20172 min read
The Words They Are a-Changin’
A word in a Palm Beach Post editorial last week sent me to the dictionary. The word was staunching, its “No no no!” I exclaimed,...
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May 23, 20172 min read
Musical Blasts From the Past
What a great week of music it was in different parts of the Palm Beaches. The 65-piece Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches presented an...
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May 7, 20173 min read
A Star is Born Again
Star Parker Star Parker calls to mind the reformed smoker who has no tolerance for smokers. She was a wayward youth until she found...
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Apr 29, 20172 min read
Democracy’s Decline
David Brooks David Brooks, ever the philosopher, had a piece the other day in the New York Times that paints a gloomy picture of a strong...
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Apr 20, 20175 min read
Getting the Boot — and the Booty
Our new president has been promising for a long time to “make America great again.” Two things happened today that inspired me with...
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Apr 15, 20173 min read
Vaccination Investigation
Robert Kennedy Jr. Perhaps the only positive thing President Donald Trump has done in his short time in office is to create a committee...
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Apr 10, 20173 min read
To Bomb or not to Bomb, That Was the Question
Bashar al-Assad What to make of President Trump’s decision last week to launch a missile strike against Syria? That question has garnered...
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Mar 24, 20172 min read
Supreme Stonewall
Chuck Schumer Okay, the Republican health-care bill is dead. The big thing now is the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court....
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Mar 21, 20172 min read
Unhealthy Politics
Be wary of Health Sciences Institute, an outfit that promotes dietary supplements and dispenses alternative medical advice. I have no...
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Mar 7, 20172 min read
It’s elementary, my dear Watson.
The Grammar Grouch is more dyspeptic than usual today. The thing which has him in high dudgeon is that totally, woefully, abysmally wrong...
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Feb 19, 20174 min read
Parting Company
President Donald Trump Last week, I heard on National Public Radio a discussion about the strife among friends and family engendered by...
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Feb 11, 20173 min read
The English Connection
Have I become a more astute writer in the past decade or so, or has the writing community become more sloppy? Did I in decades past make...
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Jan 31, 20173 min read
Feet to the Fire
Marco Rubio I became a member of Palm Beach Indivisibles this week, and at least some of us wrote a letter to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a...
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Jan 22, 20173 min read
Rhymy Ryan-y Valentine Irony
Someone suggested sending a Valentine card to the Wisconsin home of Rep. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the Republican-controlled House, calling...
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Jan 18, 20172 min read
The Week of What Was
This week is a big one for important anniversaries in the Palm Beaches and on a national level, two of them involving assassinations. The...
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Jan 14, 20171 min read
Excuse me?
About a week ago, a letter-to-the-editor in the Palm Beach Post made me laugh out loud. “GOP’s shell game with Obamacare” was the title...
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Jan 3, 20171 min read
Test Post
This is a test of my @#$%^&* WordPress website connection. What a pain. Hasn’t been working right. Let’s see if this connects.
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Dec 30, 20163 min read
Important Only to the Grouch
The subject for discussion today may not seem important, but to The Grammar Grouch, it certainly is annoying. Most important, it’s a...
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