On June 30, 1976, I moved from New York City to Los Angeles to do various tasks in Hollywood. I had in 1973–74 been a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and had become friends with him in a small way…
Algunas notas sobre la Guerra de Ucrania, la parte sangrienta de la Segunda Guerra Fría. Mi esposa y yo vimos un DVD de Dr. Strangelove anoche. Es una versión de 1964, sobre un comandante rebelde del SAC que tiene un ataque de nervios...
Long ago and far away, through the miracle of my parents’ friendship with the immortal columnist and speechwriter Bill Safire, I met a young executive at Warner Bros. TV named Steve Greene. I had pitched an idea to a wonderful…
Saturday I had a disastrous night last night. The woman who is the closest to me of any human on earth had a wild panic attack while watching Perry Mason. It was terrifying. She was shaking like a leaf in…
Sunday My slightly late 2023 New Year’s resolutions, starting with deep gratitude that I am an American… My wife is my link to the heavens and to God. If she exists, all is well. No matter what she does, I…
As you kind people know, I have been writing about the moronic ban on fracking that Mr. Biden promised to impose on our nation almost the moment he was inaugurated. This measure would have cut domestic oil and gas production…
Dear classmates, Old age is not as great as you might have thought it would be. I had what is mockingly called a “complete knee transplant” on Dec. 1, 2022. The patient (yours truly) awakened from an excruciating spinal to…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2023 — It’s a dreary, cold day here in glorious LA. I am still suffering terribly from my “complete knee replacement.” But I have my wifey next to me in bed all day. Wifey and…
It’s Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. It’s been raining like mad insanity for about a week now and this follows several weeks of occasional rain. It was predicted for years that we in Sunny Cal were in for a Thousand Year…
Here comes a bit more wisdom from your humble servant. Love is the most important thing in the world. It is the sunshine that illuminates the earth. It makes the sad happy. It improves health. It makes us want to…
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