Prominent on the front page of the February 14th New York Times is a feature story—“14 MIN READ” it said (most articles are two to six minutes), nine pictures, billed as “The Great Read”– by Times’ opinion columnist Maureen Dowd called “Live From New York, It’s Lorne Michaels: The man who made ‘Saturday Night Live’ […]
I first titled this writing “Thoughts on the Presidential Election” but immediately realized I didn’t need the word “Presidential.” What other election is there? Come to think of it, that gets at the main point of this piece: to my way of thinking, this presidential election was far too big a show — to the […]
Jeannette Rankin My daughter Dee, as I’ll call her here, has just finished her sophomore year in college. One of the jobs I’ve taken on is to direct her to sources and people she’s not encountering in her life—in school, mass entertainment, and the internet (which looks to me to come down to wall-to-wall TikTok). […]
I’ve been especially taken by the “Rich Men North of Richmond” phenomenon that’s so big in the news these days (it’s late August of ‘23). As you know—no need for a lot of exposition here—it’s a song by a heretofore unknown singer/songwriter who goes by the name of Oliver Anthony. As The New York Times […]
