Veterans Day: A Time to Honor Americans Who Wore the Uniform in Service of Our Nation
Each November, as Veterans Day approaches, my thoughts turn to 2007 and a Sunday afternoon on a visit to the nation’s capital. I was driving…
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Leslie Jordan, Queer Icon and Irrepressible Comedian, Dies at 67 in Car Crash
It;s been said so often, the expression goes beyond being cliche, but in the case of this pint-sized dynamo, the accolade is neither trite nor…
Alex Wagner is Doing Just Fine at MSNBC, Thank You Very Much
So. Allow me to vent. I’ve come across carping from various quarters that Alex Wagner is no Rachel Maddow. You know the kind of bitching…
Do You Know What the Arctic World Archive is?
I am fascinated by a bit of information I just came across quite by chance while I was perusing the internet. Established in 2017 on…
Confidence Man: NYTimes’ Maggie Haberman’s Deep Dive into All Things Trump
I am over the moon. Maggie Haberman, political correspondent at the New York Times, has a new book coming out this week, and the political…
Arkhipov: New Opera Fetes Soviet Cold War Sub Hero
I was 10 in October of 1962 when what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis played out: American intelligence detected nuclear missiles on…
King Tut Should Stay Tucked In
I had the strangest thought several days after Queen Elizabeth ll was laid to rest “for all eternity.” King Tut and other subjects of excavations…
Jenifer Lewis Walks In Joy
I caught a cable interview with Hollywood funny-woman Jenifer Lewis this past week in which she discussed her recently-published memoir Walking in My Joy: In…
Trump Polling on the Wane
Donald Trump’s star is losing some of its luster, and I, for one, couldn’t be happier. According to a new poll commissioned by NBC (conducted…
Tennis Great Federer Retires, Joins Serena
Some two weeks following Serena Williams announcing her retirement from professional tennis, Swiss star Roger Federer has announced that he, too, is hanging up his…