Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Remember that nice bagel store at the south west corner of B’way and 79th Street? Hadn’t been there for some months–saw today that it’s now a Verizon Wireless.

Why are Les Moonves and CBS allowed to use our airwaves for free as they actively promote for their financial gain the campaign of a dangerous demagogue whose deranged egomania has and will continue to do great harm to our … Continue reading →

No, democracy in the U.S. would very likely not be able to survive a Trump presidency, but can democracy in the U.S. survive the GOP’s outright refusal to obey a crystal-clear Constitutional mandate concerning the judiciary?

Thank you, Jen Hayden at dailykos.com for locating what is apparently the first New  York Times reporting on Hitler. Talk about going back to the present! The Times reported in 1922 that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that … Continue reading →

He is the logical and inevitable culmination of the softening up and stupidification practiced on the American population over the last forty years. Part of the degradation involves making celebrity the be-all and end-all, the one undying, ubiquitous cathexis of … Continue reading →

Speaking of Hallelujah, Baby!, Robert Hooks on his Facebook page says he’s written a memoir. I can’t wait to read it. His career is fascinating and I hope it’s published soon.

Robert Reich describes “a  respected political insider”‘s take on the U.S. today. “The economy is in good shape,” he said. “Most Americans are better off than they’ve been in years.” Reich writes that “The establishment doesn’t see what’s happening because … Continue reading →

On youtube, a fabulous performance by Leslie Uggams, Lillian Hayman, and Robert Hooks at the 1968 Tony Awards: Styne-Comden & Green’s “Smile, Smile,” from the musical Hallelujah, Baby! Could Broadway handle this today?

I sent someone a link to a Violette Verdy tribute on youtube and received this response: “Thanks for the link.  I just watched it, plus a few of the others.  Most of us leave behind a few good memories with … Continue reading →

Not only did he fail to recuse himself from Bush vs.Gore despite the fact that his son worked for GW’s law firm, Scalia issued the most convoluted, ludicrously ass-backwards rationale for engineering what was, for all intents and purposes, a … Continue reading →