The old adage that when “man plans, God laughs” describes all too well the year 2024. It’s not that my well-scripted ’24 has been a particularly crappy year. I mean, seriously, remember 2020? We try to sweep it into the dark corners of our memory, treat it as ancient history, hope the gauziness of time… Read More Man plans
Paul Simon is 83 years old. He’s been a musical titan for my entire life. A 16-time Grammy winner and an Album of the Year recipient three times. A Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee (twice). Half of one of pop music’s most iconic duos. He’s been a producer, an actor, a Saturday Night… Read More Lyrical: Paul Simon
Jack Klugman was a basset-faced stage and screen actor known mostly, by people of a certain age, for his role as the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison in the early 1970s TV adaptation of the Neil Simon play, The Odd Couple. Klugman, who died in 2012, played opposite Tony Randall’s fastidious Felix Unger in the hit… Read More Quincy
My modest career in politics began one fall, many years ago, when I ran, with the urging of a gaggle of my buddies, for president of Mrs. Cook’s third-grade class at W.B. Simpson Elementary School in Camden-Wyoming, Delaware. I’m sure I had some kind of campaign slogan that my little brain cooked up, though I… Read More One choice
Here’s something that we all can agree on in these depressingly divided days: the idea of America. Despite all that bad blood between us, despite the people on the other side of the political divide being the absolute worst of the worst, we can all agree — we do agree, in fact, both Democrats and… Read More Among Us
What we have in common, it is said, is much more important than that which separates us. It’s a beautiful notion, I think — maybe a tad cliche and overused, granted, perhaps a bit on the gaggy side — but it’s one that most of us would agree with. After all, we humans, as scientists… Read More Between Us
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