SILLY WOKE Flippant “woke” judgments are as dangerous to our union as the superficial judgments made by racists ad embittered patriarchs.
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER: Winsome Earle-Sears Lieutenant Governor Earle-Sears has tens of thousands, maybe millions, of people in her state who will be put at risk by her tales of sexual grooming by drag queens.
REVIEW: THE NOISE OF TIME, by Julian Barnes I love the slyness, insider insinuations, hints, the elegance and sophistication of Barnes’s writing in The Noise of Time. He begins with a surreal scene in a train station going toward Moscow. We don’t know who is on the train platform; the character is “he” for twenty pages of panic, degradation, fear, memory, black humor,Continue reading “REVIEW: THE NOISE OF TIME, by Julian Barnes”
Some advice from an older generation The protesters of my generation (we came of age in the 60s and early 70s) have two lessons for the powerful generation standing up for all of us these days: 1) by uniting around solid ideas, you can be effective, and 2) the forces against you are powerful, militant, and may overcome you. We marched,Continue reading “Some advice from an older generation”
Twenty things you can do about gun violence Whatever your view of powers greater than you, there are others within your group who are fighting gun violence. Find them.
Filming a Jim Johnson commercial I was invited to be part of the new Jim Johnson commercial to be filmed in his house. Jim is running for governor in New Jersey and is building up a head of steam against Phil Murphy who is papering the state with his Goldman Sachs money in an effort to buy the governorship. ButContinue reading “Filming a Jim Johnson commercial”
No More Grumbling!! I put my hand on Brad’s shoulder and said, “Just in case you thought that white people don’t notice this sort of thing, aren’t bothered by it, I want you to know I noticed.”
My 2016 Inaugural Day Celebration In the hospital, with help from an Iranian, Bosnian, Pole, Pakistani, Italian-American, German-American, and a woman from China. That’s my America.
Is This All You've Got? Now, Colbert, Noah, Bee, Maher, Collins, Dowd, and all the others, let’s see if you can be brilliant enough to take our minds off of the Trump theatrics. We are addicted and we need effective rehab.