A grotesque computer-generated graphic covered the front page of the Sunday Styles section —nothing but bottles of glossy, rainbow-colored pills. It alerted readers to a piece on page 5, where Casey Schwartz mused on why…
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He wears granny glasses, not to be hip bought him a paperback Tao Te Ching A Specialist 4 on a Korean trip Oh, Radar O’Reilly of thee I sing If Hot Lips is snitching and…
Fort Campbell, on the Kentucky/Tennessee border, is home to the 101st Airborne Division. “Go out Gate 5 at Fort Campbell and Jenna’s Adult Superstore is right across the street.” So begins Ron Lieber’s tour through…
Graphics in the Times are usually mediocre and many take up more than half a page – a total waste of ink and newsprint. But the front-page photo on June 25 was poignant and revealing.…
Working people have inordinate leverage in this economy, according to the corporate media. It’s the time of “The Great Resignation” (a silly pun on “the great migration” of black people from the South seeking a…
Roger Stone played a key role in stopping the recount of votes in Florida that would have cost George W. Bush the Presidency in 2000. He reprised his role post-Election Day in 2020 on behalf…
There’s papers here. There’s papers there. Could be a desk underneath somewhere. Entropy got a hold of me inexorably. I keep a stack of items that seem worth quoting if and when a hook presents…
I went to see Woodward playing Redford Dustin Hoffman played by Carl Bernstein Martha Mitchell, who really blew the whistle never got mentioned. She got no credit on the silver screen. Barry Sussman, whose obit…
For planting this item in the East Bay Express, the Claremont Hotel in Oakland deserves a Perfy (the PR industry’s coveted Perfumes-of-Arabia award for best cleansing of a company’s image): “Some cities have wine trails.…