THIS MAY NOT BE BROOKLYN… (…but that tree has now grown tall enough to peek into our 4th story window) Each morning at breakfast, I’ve made it a habit of looking out of our apartment window overlooking the inner courtyard
MAQUILLA D’ORO…AMERICAN STYLE (…here by day…back there by night…) Neither the President nor the Congress seem able or are prepared to try and resolve the problem of the current flood of illegals coming from south of our border with Mexico.
A LAST BLOWOUT AT THE CANDLESTICK CORRAL (…between their stars of yesteryear…) Nostalgia hung as heavily as the usual fog for the occasion as the Niners and the Dolphins went at it for a last blowout at the Candlestick Corral…between
ONCE AGAIN THEY’RE BOTH RIDING THAT CAROUSEL (…of Assinus Assinum Fricat…) As that old Latin expression put it several millennia ago…one stupid ass irritates another stupid ass…the wrong way. For almost three quarters of a century the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has
YES…WE CAN STILL CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY (…despite the best efforts of Congress not to give us any reasons to do so…) As usual on the occasion of Independence Day we go all out for it, with great pomp
AN ALL NATURAL ALTERNATIVE (…for quitting the Too-Fat Polka to become a slinky Waltzing Matilda instead…) Some thirty years ago the health mavens of medical science, after several decades of research, concluded that there was an all natural alternative for
IN EGYPT…PHARAONIC RULE IS BACK ( so journalists…be advised…report or comment about Egypt at your peril) The Egyptian revolution’s outcome during the so-called Arab Spring which swept across the region…from Morocco to Syria…ended up with the country in shambles and
THE ONLY FAIL-SAFE OPTION LEFT TO SALVAGE SOMETHING (…from a decade of misguided policy) The further rapid disintegration of the Iraqi nation-state leaves the US with very few viable options. Given the way things are evolving on the ground, by
STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE (…facing the unintended consequences of misguided policy notions) There’s no sense trying to dodge it, but at this moment the US is stuck between a rock and a hard place…facing the unintended
A DISMAL ROI FROM OUR IRAQ VENTURE (…’cause nation-building artistes…we’re not) We stormed into Iraq (and Afghanistan) in the aftermath of 9/11 like an enraged and badly wounded lion, mauling and shredding everything and everyone in site with our military