Election Day! A great day, and often a brutal one. What can we do about it? Libby commented on my last column: “Any suggestions for how to avoid all media on election night? The temptation is too great at home…
Sometimes you drink for good reasons. You want to celebrate in style, knocking back a couple of cocktails and hitting the dance floor with some much-needed social lubrication. You want to show your appreciation to a happy couple with a…
Lie Big or Go Home If I could vote in the upcoming election, I would most certainly vote for Donald Trump, just to stick it to all those free-speech-stifling people who identify as Democrats. I keep my mouth shut when…
There are only hours to go before election day, and businesses in most major cities are boarding up in expectation of protests, riots, and God knows what else. This weekend, I passed through Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Minneapolis. It’s the…
My father-in-law of blessed memory taught Talmud and Rabbinics in Berlin until 1940. He was there as Germany’s Jewish community was terrorized, stripped of rights, mulcted, and isolated. He knew tyranny firsthand. He would often teach that, in conveying the…
Repeating something over and over doesn’t make it any more true, and despite the media’s parroting of the “this is the most important election of our lifetime” platitude, the fact is it probably isn’t. All depends on whose lifetime, of…
How are you dealing with pre-election nerves? Pianist Adam Golka is celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a concert series called 32@32, in which the 32-year-old musician will play all 32 Beethoven sonatas. Saint Thomas Church in New York City is…
This is the Matrix Election. Last Saturday, October 24, I drove to work listening to a CBS radio affiliate. There were no conservative radio stations on, and sometimes I listen to the mainstream media to hear what the establishment thinks….
