Trump’s Wolf call- Wake Up Sheep!
While solemn Jews were attending concluding services for Rosh Hashanah, uplifted by the ritual of the ancient blowing of the shofar ( a rams horn) that connects us to our souls, Donald Trump took...
View ArticleNever Again is Now
Hate is no longer hiding, but out on the streets for all to see. While peacefully walking with his grandson on Park Avenue the other day, a friend’s reverie was shattered by a group of about 100...
View ArticleRosalynn Carter First Lady of Mental Health
I wanted to take mental illness and emotional disorders out of the closet, to let people know it is all right to admit having a problem without the fear of being called crazy. If only we could...
View ArticleSixty Years Ago November 22, 1963 An Ordinary Day Turned Extraordinary
Friday, November 22, 1963, began as ordinarily as any other school day. That crisp N.Y. fall morning gave no indication that 60 years later it would be one burned into my consciousness. By afternoon,...
View ArticlePilgrims Progress
Was the first Thanksgiving truly a pow-wow-worthy feast? Most of us associate the holiday with happy pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. It did happen once. It would be good to say this...
View ArticleOh, Henry!
Call Henry Kissinger what you want, statesman, presidential advisor, or murderous scumbag, the one thing that doesn’t jump to mind for most people is sex symbol. Yet in the early 1970s, he stood toe...
View ArticleHoping For A Hanukkah Miracle
The first night of Hanukkah is always special. It was 1959 when I lit my very first Hanukkah candle all by myself. At four years old, I was deemed old enough to hold the tapered lit candle in my hand,...
View ArticleTrump Is No Dog Whistler
It’s not just German Shepherds who are hearing Trumps Hitleresque dog whistles Chris Christie may have blasted Donald Trump over his Hitleresque blood poisoning comments. but denouncing his vile...
View ArticleIs Trump The Chosen One?
On Monday starry-eyed Iowans gave their final rose to Donald Trump, the one they deemed a golden candidate among a dreary and dull lot. Oblivious to this treasonous pig covered in mud, it certainly...
View ArticleThe Ball Player and the Blonde
A major sports figure and gorgeous entertainer are romantically involved. The American public is enthralled wanting to know every juicy detail. At times it seems to eclipse the big presidential...
View ArticleMemories on 60th Anniversary of the Beatles Debut on Ed Sullivan
Anniversary Edition From the Vault Can it really be 60 years since the Beatles burst into our lives on an ordinary Sunday night after which nothing would be the same again? There are few of my...
View ArticleTrump to NATO Nyet
When Donald Trump encourages Russia to attack our NATO Allies there should be more than a red flag. When it comes to danger as well as derangement we are at Def Con 1. Is anyone surprised that Trump...
View ArticleNever Surrender
“We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender!” Winston Churchill Trump may have yet...
View ArticleDonald Trump‘s Great Fall
I’ve been counting down the days for Trump’s Big Fall, ever since I portrayed him tumbling from great heights in a collage I created about New York City decades ago. New Yorkers have been waiting...
View ArticleLois Lane Black Like Me
Imagine today an award-winning white reporter from a big city newspaper posing as an African American for an investigative piece. Would New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman be willing to don...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Home Run
“Defending democracy not diminish it.” Joe Biden State of the Union Address 2024 Joltin Joe came out swinging last night in the well of Congress. President Biden hit one home run after another in a...
View ArticleMy Father Danced with Iris Apfel When No One Else Would
Eighty-eight years ago at a high school mixer, while the gym floor was crowded with couples dancing, my 15-year-old father Marvin kept his eye on another 15-year-old, a shy female friend leaning...
View ArticleJoin The White Patriarchy
This cartoon detail from a 1977 alternative comic book called Young Lust. Art by Paul Navrides published by Last Gasp, Berkeley CA. Is this the America today’s Republicans want to return to? If this...
View ArticleAccess Your Rights
In a world of Marjorie Taylor Greens be an Alice Paul. As women’s access to reproduction rights is rapidly diminishing, the lesson that every new generation has to fight for the same rights to protect...
View ArticleRobert Kennedy Breaks the News of Martin Luther Kings Assasination
Fifty Six years ago on Thursday, April 4th Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolis campaigning for the Democratic nomination when he was told of Martin Luther King’s Death. When the news was broken to him,...
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