Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Fray-hardened snowflake Haberman gets into yet another snit because now it’s John Cusack asking her to call Trump’s lies what they are. There are two reasons why The New York Times cannot yet wean itself away from decades of finger-in-the-air … Continue reading →

Bartiromo’s co-conspirator Judge Jeanine cannot anymore–if ever she could–conduct a rational discourse when her propaganda bytes are challenged by troublesome intrusions of fact and reality. Her totally over-the-top histrionics are meant to compensate for the fact that she can hardly … Continue reading →

John Norton tweets: “Sen. Schatz you and your colleagues need to be much more vocal in pushing back on Trump’s nonsense. You have great message on Twitter. Please do some television interviews.”

“What is at stake now is the identity of the university itself,” Jon Paul Sydnor writes at Daily Kos. “And with it, the fate of knowledge and citizenship in America. “The conflict is between two different visions of what the … Continue reading →

Why is 574 Fifth Avenue, a former brownstone mansion transformed in the 1890s into one of Fifth Avenue’s most interesting and important low-rise commercial structures, being demolished to allow some internal mall project that’s already too big to become even … Continue reading →

For a long time my father had his office at 401 Broadway, and I was in the area a lot. Believe me, Canal Street was bustling. Any moron knows that. But not, apparently, the upscale forces of hyper-gentrification. It’s galling to … Continue reading →

She and her clown act are as tacky as they come, which makes her perfect for Fox “News,” and she’s demonstrating more than ever that she’s nothing but a me-too lying member of the traitorous Fox tag team. P.S. It’s … Continue reading →

Ernst Lubtisch’s 1923 silent Rosita features what may very well be Mary Pickford’s finest performance, in an atypical role for her–she’s an adult, and she’s a light-living street singer. Tomorrow night at the Museum of Modern Art, a digital restoration … Continue reading →

Sniveling crybaby Trump cancels summit because his feelings have been hurt, while Evil Minder Bolton smolders with war-fever in the corner of the playroom.

“Tristam Pretorious” at Daily Kos reminds us that “Until 1973, federal law did not encourage health insurance providers from functioning under a profit motive.” And this scribe has reams of corrobatory evidence.