Sardinia Awaits on Monday Morning
I’m about to depart on another transatlantic adventure, this time with Cindy by my side. We fly from JFK to Rome on Sunday night and then over to the island of Sardinia, off Italy’s coast. We will join a group of writers from around the US beginning Monday morning and […]
Again, the Parade is the Tiresome Talk of Amherst
Larry Kelley isn’t happy. He’s the biggest booster of the Fourth of July Parade in Amherst, and he was dealt a severe blow by his nemesis, Gerald Weiss, whom he likes to refer to as ‘his lordship.’ Actually it was the town Manager Larry Shaffer and Weiss plus the rest […]
I’m So Sleepy….CRASH!!
The science of sleep was the topic of a 60 Minutes story a few Sunday nights back. When tested, person after person performed best on repetitive tasks if they had had a good night’s sleep, not if they studied more. This blows the idea of pulling an all-nighter because if […]
McCain’s Preposterous Tax Cut Math
I read about John McCain’s new economic plan and wow, does he give the Dems some great ammunition. The WSJ, conservative and Republican as it is, put it straight. The Senator who voted against George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy twice is now espousing both these cuts and more. […]
The Rich Are Vanquished Over ‘Sconset Beach Plan
Oh, how sad, the rich have been vanquished in Nantucket. A few months ago I wrote about the effort by some of Nantucket’s richest citizens to dredge sand from the ocean in order to prop up the cliffs beneath their seaside mansions on a bluff in Siasconset, and how this […]
Ben Stein Tries to Make Darwin America’s Enemy
I saw a provocative ad in the NY Times a week ago, and tonight read a review on MSNBC…it was for a movie made by pundit Ben Stein called ‘Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed.” At first blush, and even after watching a trailer, I didn’t get what the movie was about […]
ABC Debate Hosts Out of Touch and Off Base
Frank Rich wrote in today’s NY Times about the awful ABC News debate last week, in which the hosts ignored the important issues and focused, between incessant commercial breaks, on asking trivial and gossipy questions trying to trap the democratic candidates instead of educating the public about their positions. “The […]
Lawyers Chase Chevron for Petroecuador’s Spills
In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, the paper railed against a group of men who are being honored by CNN and many of the politically-correct left. I admire them for digging behind the story about Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza, who are not the heroes that some make […]