A big thanks to the Lake Worth Rotary Club for its abundant hospitality and attentive audience for my author presentation Wednesday. Not only did I sell some copies of MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died, but I was fed at the event at Brogue’s restaurant. But here’s the kicker: After listening to […]
The Palm Beach Post’s special section on healthful eating for seniors in Thursday’s paper got it partly right, but other morsels of information were just a rehashing of the wrong-headed dictums perpetrated by the medical establishment for decades. Righting a wrong “People over age 50 should increase their intake of unsaturated fats and reduce consumption […]
A jazz musician I know used to introduce guests playing with his combo by saying, “I’ve known a lot of piano players (or drummers, or whatever) in my day, and so-and-so is one of them.” This Thursday, Nov. 5, three authors are appearing at the Riviera Beach Library to shamelessly, nay proudly, tout their books […]
For the first second time in probably 37 years, I stepped into the Riviera Beach Library on Thursday evening – and remembered it like it was yesterday. That’s because I’d been there several times before. My then-wife, Lynn, was the head librarian. I recalled the entire layout, which she’d worked with the architect from Washington, […]
Dr. David Brownstein The medical establishment’s propaganda about the safety and benefits of vaccinations is relentless. And it’s effective. It had a skeptic such as I convinced that those parents who refused to vaccinate their children for fear of their becoming autistic were conspiracy theorists. Even Rachel Maddow, whom I think highly of, was […]
Yogi Berra Judged by today’s linguistic milieu, Yogi Berra’s verbal foibles were not all that uncommon. The words and phrases we hear and read make his malapropisms and redundancies seem like déjà vu all over again. No help needed Just a moment ago, my eyes lighted on this sentence in a health newsletter promo: […]
Michael Gerson When conservative pundits take issue with Republican politicians and their followers on whether Muslims in the United States should be marginalized and Syrian refugees admitted into the country, you know those politicians have gone off the cliff. One pundit even praised President Obama for his positions. “American politicians who cast aspersions on […]
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 […]