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Good morning kids. New Year’s Eve 2025! Memories of my folks throwing parties for their friends at our place or being schlepped to their friends’ homes for same, and of watching either Guy Lombardo, Dick Clark or the annual broadcast of the Jack Benny, Alexis Smith screwball comedy the Horn Blows at Midnight, while waiting for…
Good morning kids. On this penultimate day of 2024, a year of mixed blessings for many of us, it is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of . . . Linda Lavin. The accomplished actress of stage and screen (big and small) leaves the world a better place for her artistic contributions that…
The NCAA is all in on trans lunacy, and even when the athletes themselves push back, citing absolutely reasonable objections like fear of being injured and the outrageousness of being forced to disrobe in front of men pretending to be women, the sleazy tools of the progressive movement that control the NCAA tell them to…
Good morning kids. Oh give me a freaking break, already. Remember how Democrats were outraged — Outraged! — that some Republicans objected to the counting of the Electoral College votes back in 2021 over concerns that voter fraud tipped the election results to Joe Biden in key battleground states? The very idea of disputing the election…
The two great evils of the 20th century have faired quite differently in current popular culture. Fascism has been discredited as a political philosophy, even though its most famous acolyte — Adolph Hitler — was in reality a socialist who used nationalism to attract the masses. Communism, otherwise known as “international socialism,” has never been…
Good morning kids. Hope you all had a blessed Christmas and that the light from the menorah this year, more than ever, serves as a beacon of hope not just for Jews but for all of us who yearn for freedom and for the darkness of evil and tyranny wherever it exists to be vanquished. …
Good morning kids. Here’s wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah. Hope you are all surrounded by loving family and hip deep in wrapping paper and enjoying a big mug of cocoa. As per usual, after a glance at the links that cocoa is bound to be topped off with…
I am a dedicated believer in the concept of American Exceptionalism, and I will defend the idea that Americans are the finest people on the planet. But nowhere in our culture is there as much of a disparity between those ideas, and their practice, than our government; specifically our representatives, though generally pretty much everyone….
Good morning kids. Considering tomorrow is Christmas as well as Hanukkah, which are supposed to be, and indeed are joyous occasions, it pains me to have to bring you news items such as many of the ones below, which are not only not uplifting, but in the main, depressing and in some cases truly revolting. After…
Good morning kids. For those of a certain age, you’ll recognize the name of singer Petula Clark and might be able to hum or sing a few bars of her smash 1967 hit “Don’t Sleep in the Subway.” As I once heard ad-libbed by famed DJ Harry Harrison on the now defunct NYC oldies station WCBS-FM after…