Mona Charen Paul Krugman and Mona Charen, two syndicated columnists. A recent column by each reminds me of a song: “What a difference a day makes.” Substitute “a day” with “the truth” and we see the good and the bad of newspaper journalism. Paul Krugman Krugman wrote about the last Republican presidential […]
Friends and neighbors and lovers of literature (I use the term loosely), sometimes in the world of books there is a free lunch. If that’s what you’re lookin’ for, you have come to da right place. My novel MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died (Pegasus Books, publisher) is about to go on […]
MURDER IN PALM BEACH, by me, is about to go FREE! That is, the book will be offered free for one full day beginning at midnight tonight. And you thought somebody was getting away with murder. Well … maybe. You can find out by reading this novel based on a real murder. It’s a FREE […]
These days, I find myself running into run-on sentences with greater frequency. Seems as though people are too impatient, or lazy, or just plain clueless, to stick a little punctuation into their communication, or to bother putting it in the right places. The phenomenon is everywhere on the Internet, where English standards often seem nonexistent, […]
Nicky Orta Wow, what a performance Friday evening at the recently reopened Bamboo Room in downtown Lake Worth! Talented keyboard player Tom Regis led an ensemble of outstanding musicians featuring Freddie Jacobs on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Nicky Orta. The electric-bass player received a Grammy nomination for his work on the 2005 album “…And […]
A belated notice that the Kindle version of my novel MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died is available for FREE very shortly on Amazon.com, all day Monday, Oct. 12. In fact, by the time I get through posting this, it probably will already be FREE. You can download it on your Kindle or […]
Green isn’t green. Alex Green, the chief analyst for the Oxford Club investment newsletter service, defends the Monsanto corporation in its production of genetically modified foods, or organisms. There is no evidence that GMOs are dangerous to health, and much evidence that they are helping to feed a world that has too little food for […]
Igor Butman The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. That is, they came – not with seven machine guns in a re-enactment of the 1966 comedy movie about a Russian sub running aground off New England, but with 16 musical instruments. They arrived at the Arts Garage in Delray Beach on Sunday night, […]
Hillary Clinton The House Benghazi Committee grilled Hillary Clinton for 11 hours, minus two breaks, today with the intention, as the late departed candidate for House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, openly admitted, of trashing her candidacy for president of the United States. The committee handed Clinton a gift, markedly improving her chances of becoming president. […]
Andy Rooney John L. Lewis I’m having an Andy Rooney moment. You know, the dyspeptic guy who for 33 years closed out each CBS’ 60 Minutes program – until the clock closed out on his life, a month after he left the show in 2011. With his bushy eyebrows and scowling face, […]