Our greatest American, and our worst ones
Aside from George Washington and Abe Lincoln, it’s difficult to argue that anyone made the peoples of the world admire and love the United States more than Mark Twain did.
Antisemitism — real and imaginary — is big news these days. Here’s how I dealt with it in my neighborhood.
Aside from George Washington and Abe Lincoln, it’s difficult to argue that anyone made the peoples of the world admire and love the United States more than Mark Twain did.
Donald Trump is using the same tactics Adolf Hitler used in his successful drive for power in 1932. A recent book by an eminent historian describes it.
Few people outside of Russia can compete with Donald Trump when it comes to being a god in his own mind: narcissistic, venomous, delusional — but Bobby Kennedy Jr. comes close.
Ever been in a situation where you knew you were right and everyone else was wrong? It happened to me once, and I ain’t ashamed. Except maybe about the bell bottoms.
Andrés Manuel Lỏpez Obrador, the president of Mexico, is the phoniest so-called ‘leftist’ in our hemisphere. AMLO is not a leftist. He’s an opportunist, who uses his daily press conferences to suborn the murder of journalists.
Big dogs are better than men — though they can acquire our faults. Maybe little dogs are all right too, though when I was a paperboy it was always the little ones bit me.
In our Disunited States, where liars stand so proudly, arms akimbo, elbows against their own laws, I seek solace in a source that’s never failed me: Plato’s "Apology" and "Crito."
I hate television, so I’ve never seen a “reality show,” whatever that ‘sposed to be. But I ain’t been in a coma for 30 years neither (if only). So please behold my Mexican-American reality show for gringos.
On the day Julius Caesar told a soothsayer, “The Ides of March are come,” (implying that the soothsayer had not said sooth), the soothsayer replied, “Fine. Have a nice day.”
W.H. Auden summed up this gruesome election year decades ago in his comment on Hamlet: “He was his situation.” Just so, we have become our situation.