Chris Matthews Three words are found in The Donald’s last name: Trump, rump and ump. All spell “ass.” If Donald Trump were umping battles in the international arena, the air would be blue with shouts of, “Kill the umpire.” What better word for this low-life than “rump”? As for “Trump,” the name personifies the man’s […]
Lenard Rutledge, Melton Mustafa Senior and Junior Plans by the city of West Palm Beach to buy the venerable Sunset Cocktail Lounge and convert it into the centerpiece of a “jazz neighborhood” got a boost Saturday night with a sensational concert by the Melton Mustafa Big Orchestra – as in 16 pieces. It was the […]
Mona Charen I’m about as big a fan of syndicated columnist Mona Charen as I am of Donald Trump – which is to say, not so much. However, she pointed out something in a Dec. 7 column that opened my eyes wider. Charen quoted a Pew poll of 2011 that showed 7 percent of […]
Petula Clark’s 1964 hit song Downtown had the wrong idea. Sure, “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go, downtown.” But if you prefer peace and quiet for company (instead of traffic and noise), you can always go, to the library. At 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, for example, joining […]
Attention authors! If you want the red carpet treatment for you and your book, you can’t do better than the North Palm Beach Public Library. This is a belated, brief account of my experience last Thursday at said library. Ambling up to the entrance, my attention was arrested by a big sign announcing my book […]
Paul Ryan with Ayn Rand U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives, presides over a Republican majority that fights to make the rich richer, at the expense of the middle and lower classes. It opposes higher taxes on the wealthy as a way of reducing the nation’s […]
Check out this story about a massive storm that’s supposed to be developing in the North Atlantic, which is supposed to raise the temperature at the North Pole possibly above the freezing level of 32 degrees. The normal temperature for this time of year is 40 degrees below zero. It’s part of the same weather system […]
FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of this blessed new year, my book will be available at no charge – in other words, free (did I mentioned that?). I’m talking about the Amazon Kindle edition, which all of you […]
Ray Charles Oh, it’s signing time again, you’re gonna join me … With apologies to Ray Charles, it’s book signing time again for yours truly, this time in Delray Beach. This time? It’ll be my second time in four days at the Delray Public Library, where I again will tout my novel MURDER IN PALM […]
An illustrious new literary blog has just emerged: Book Club Babble. It’s run by six gals who know how to write and know good writing. That’s obvious, because they honored me by running an interview about my novel in their inaugural Babble. (See what happens to a person from daily exposure to Donald Trump? This guy needs his own […]