Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


60 Minutes/Bari Weiss

Everybody can’t do everything. My inbox is littered with people saying not to use their name. As if the average citizen in New Jersey has to worry about Trump’s revenge. (Then again, maybe they do…) They call this a “chilling effect.” Bedrock in Constitutional law. Something might look benign on the surface, but have the […]

Renaming The Kennedy Center

This just feels wrong. Most Americans were not alive when JFK was assassinated. One can argue that’s when the sixties began. That’s when the generations split. The fifties were somnambulant, even the hipsters had crew cuts. By time the sixties arrived, there were pockets of experimentation, the roots of new musical acts that would triumph […]

Fame

Doesn’t mean as much as it used to. I remember growing up, going to the Yankee game, we told our friends we would be there, to look out for us on TV. To be on TV was the thrill of a lifetime. Just to be seen, never mind heard. But today, being on television is […]

Tuesday’s Election

The story for me is how out of touch the press is. The right said Trump had a mandate. The left said the party had to run to the center. And everybody in the pundit class, everybody in D.C., seemed to have no understanding of the mind-set of the people. And the question arises, if […]