Who elected Larry King America’s grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous…
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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil,…
Read More »The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop…
Read More »The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop…
Read More »As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a ‘Star Trek’ future…
Read More »A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of…
Read More »Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. James Wolcott
Read More »High expectations weren’t nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children weren’t fawned over from an early age…
Read More »After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power…
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