The Chilling Path to Assassination
posted 16 days ago | 1 comment
The recent “crashing” of a Presidential State Dinner by a couple of wannabe celebrity publicity hounds sends chills up my spine, especially motivated by the picture of them being greeted by President Obama. It inspires the unthinkable.
It recalls...
It recalls...
Sarah Again
posted 22 days ago | 1 comment
One should be given combat pay for defending Sarah Palin in Manhattan. The other evening at a lecture, a s0-called distinguished author of political tomes reflected on the declining state of conservatism and cited Sarah Palin as the reincarnation ...
Go Sarah
posted 28 days ago | 2 comments
In my daily Manhattan world, where most of my friends and acquaintances are old style political groupies of a distinctly liberal bent, nothing gets them more riled, really riled, hyper-irritated, when I mention that I admire Sarah Palin.
They fus...
They fus...
SONY Reader Promotion
posted about 1 month ago, updated 1 minute later | 1 comment
Today, the SONY reader will begin a promotion that bundles all of Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald mys...
Mainstream Media is in its Death Throes
posted about 1 month ago | 1 comment
The so-called mainstream media, once defined as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the three major network TV stations, no longer have a monopoly on the opinion making p...
Dumb and Dumber in the White House
posted about 1 month ago | 2 comments
Growing up in New York in the thirties and forties, there were at least eleven daily newspapers, all spouting varying opinions from both left and right perspectives. Offered by the news organizations were a potpourri of praise and anger, mostly an...
The President's Secret Thoughts-a Speculation
posted 2 months ago | 0 comments
Perhaps it is merely force of habit, but I often find myself imagining what powerful public figures are really thinking as they act in ways that impact on our lives. Unlike psychologists and psychiatrists, who make a lifetime study of human motiva...
Google To The Rescue
posted 2 months ago | 3 comments
If you are a living author or the heir of a dead author, the confusing legal battle between those who support and those who oppose the Google objective of digitizing all out-of-print books must be a daunting task indeed.
As someone who has been ...
As someone who has been ...
By Hook or Crook, Now Comes The Vook
posted 2 months ago | 1 comment
The new charge by the panicked book publishing industry to combine video with text and create a hybrid book, cutely named a “Vook”, reminds me of that great line from Superman comics “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman.” Or is it?
Such an ...
Such an ...
