A dubious bet
I dropped in at the new casino in Schenectady the other day, just to check it out, and let me tell you, despite all the hype about transforming Schenectady into a place that people want to go to rather...
View ArticleIsraeli general’s son
One event I’m looking forward to is the talk this coming Tuesday (Jan. 17) by Miko Peled, the San Diego-based activist who comes from a distinguished Israeli military family and now campaigns on behalf...
View ArticleAt last, a therapy pig
Surely the American people’s mawkishness over animals has reached its endpoint with the introduction to Albany International Airport of a therapy pig. I should have known it would come to this. I was...
View ArticleMarv Cermak’s last wish
My old friend Marv Cermak finally got his wish — after five and a half years of bitter suffering, he died. He could hardly walk, hardly open and close his hands, hardly endure the constant pain. “I...
View ArticleElection prediction
The winner will be someone who is despised by more than half the country, and that half of the country will not be reconciled to the outcome but will continue to despise the winner and resist his or...
View ArticleGrab ’em by the what?
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve had it. I’ve reached my limit. I hereby withdraw my support from Donald Trump. Until now I’ve thought maybe he is the president that America deserves. He is certainly the...
View ArticleParis report
The French are strange people, I concluded after a week of exploring Paris. First off, they wear pants, if you can imagine such a thing, and not just pants, but shirts also, many of them, and leather...
View ArticleTrump, yet again
How to describe Donald Trump — buffoon, flimflam artist, liar, bigot, egomaniac, demagogue? All have been tried, but none seem adequate. He began to make a name for himself in politics by questioning...
View ArticleSave the trees
Allow me to make a proposal for what I think will be civic betterment: The cutting of mature trees on private property should be subject to permit the same as any other major alteration to one’s...
View ArticleLiberal media eats crow
Do you remember the gloating of the liberal media just a couple of months ago to the effect that Donald Trump was so disorganized, so politically inept that he had raised almost no campaign money...
View ArticleTipping point
Well, I guess we all have our tipping point. Take me, for example. I’ve been a huge Trump fan right from the get-go, right from when he was demanding to see Obama’s birth certificate and suggesting...
View ArticleCuomo safe — for now
I believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo is safe, at least for the time being, having issued an executive order to punish companies that participate in or promote a boycott of Israel. That should cover him. The...
View ArticleGov. Cuomo — forgetting the Liberty
Today is June 8, the 49th anniversary of an event that has been all but erased from the national memory, that is, the attack on the American naval vessel the USS Liberty by our great partner in peace...
View ArticleGood-bye to The Greatest
Muhammad Ali and I were the same age, separated by only three weeks, and in many ways I measured myself by him, beginning when he beat Sonny Liston in 1964, and I, feeling myself still a kid, realized...
View ArticleAirport security (Misguided Dept.)
Every time I travel by plane I say the day is coming when it will be my last. The sardine-like compaction in the plane, the gouging fees for everything from carry-on bags to checking in in person, and...
View ArticleTijuana report
As an extension of a swing through the southwestern region of our great country, I confess that my wife and I skipped across the border to Tijuana, a place that I have long spurned as not the real...
View ArticleNo rally for me
Sorry I can’t make the Trump circus tonight. I’ve got another engagement. I’m not sure what I would do there anyway – chant “No more hate!” or some such? Interview the miserable lunks who themselves...
View ArticleLive at the library
Dear friends & readers: Just to let you know, tomorrow (Tues., March 15) I’ll be doing an oral book review at the Albany Public Library, in the big meeting room on the first floor. The time is...
View ArticleThe GOP: Hoist with its own petard
I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying the Republican presidential contest. I watched the debate the other night, and it was the hardest I had laughed since — well, since the day before, when I watched...
View ArticleHow to end a standoff — or not
Looking for a bit of entertainment the other day, I picked up a video about the MOVE disaster in Philadelphia back in the 1980s, if anyone happens to remember that historic event. A black militant cult...
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