Black Friday always reminds me of when my vision of my own personal hell was forever altered. For more than a decade, it was being forced to sit in a room and listen to the Bee Gees’ “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack on an endless loop.Then I started working retail.Although it’s true ...
Beware the changeling convoy advancing on America.Organized and financed by oligarchs, it is composed mostly of the “lovers, muggers and thieves” first mentioned by the Standells in their 1966 hit “Dirty Water.” Serial monogamists and unknown West-Central Middle Easterners may also be ...
At my age – and given the current contentious atmosphere in the U.S. of A. – any good news is usually welcome. That’s why I had high hopes for an article, published by Vox.com, titled “23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better.”“For most Americans, these ...
I should resign from the boys club.As a teenager, I never got stumbling drunk, threw a girl down on a bed, tried to remove her clothes and placed my hand over her mouth to muffle her cries.My fellow boys should have drummed me out long ago. The sergeant-at-arms should have ripped the stripes ...
Almost 21 years ago, I bought a Lionel train set for my 8-year-old son. Set it up under the Christmas tree. Sent it circling our ceramic village. Together, we watched.“Is that all it does?” my son asked.And I realized how hopelessly pathetic my childhood had been.But then I discovered the ...
Next time you hear two males greet each other with a hearty, “Hey, bra!” don’t be so sure it’s merely a salutation. It may actually be one’s comment on the other’s choice of undergarments.A headline in the Aug. 25 edition of London’s <em>Daily ...
