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• Flashlight, a Great Book About a Horrible Country

  

  Recently I reviewed a novel I hated, The Land in Winter, picked by one of my book groups. Our next one, Susan Choi’s Flashlight, was far better. That contrast... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Greatest President Ever

  

  Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, in the 2021 impeachment, voted to convict Trump for a violent attempt to overthrow the government. Despite that... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dear Europe

  

  And we do mean “dear.” We love you. Impressions to the contrary notwithstanding.There’s been much talk of divorce. The alliance called dead. It’s understandable... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New York: The Mucked-Up State

  

  New York is one of America’s most Democratic states. And its least democratic.Its governor more powerful than any other. Can put almost any policy into the stat... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Next Pecha Kucha Friday – A Wonderful Event!

  

  Sage College’s Opalka Gallery has a great event called “Pecha Kucha Night;” held all over the world. Several presenters each shows and talks about 20 slides,... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Tulip Queen — The Past is a Foreign Country

  

  This weekend is Albany’s traditional Tulip Festival (from its Dutch heritage). Part of it is crowning a Tulip Queen. Not something normally engaging my... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Regime Betrays Afghan Refugees

  

  I recall when, during the Syrian refugee crisis, I wrote something unfavorably comparing America with Germany. My daughter — working in the Middle East on... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 8647!

  

  Trump and I share one opinion: don’t like James Comey. Trump because Comey, as FBI director, refused to halt its investigation of 2016 Russian election meddling... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coming ICE Election

  

  Trump lost in 2020. Crying “fraud” only because his damaged psyche couldn’t face losing. Not a single Biden ballot was ever proven invalid. The real attempt to... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Coin Auction and Photography Evolution

  

  IN THE BEGINNING, all was darkness.I started collecting coins in 1957; selling them around 1978. Not as a regular thing; just getting rid of excess stuff. But... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Swimming Through Molasses: Andrew Miller’s Novel, The Land in Winter

  

  I hated this book. The title relates to the setting, 1962-63 England, with epic snowstorms. Author Miller has won oodles of gongs for previous novels; this one... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Doctor Jesus Will See You Now

  

  As an atheist, there’s a certain bemusement toward the latest Trumpian religion-adjacent idiocies. Blasphemy? Offending people’s beliefs that themselves flout... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Elizabeth Robinson & Charmaghz: Educating Afghan Girls

  

  Great news: my daughter Elizabeth is now CEO of Charmaghz, an international non-profit development organization. Now for the bad news: it’s been outlawed, shut... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Good News: Democracy Wins in Hungary

  

  I’ve written similar headlines before. Such stories can later turn sour (like in Thailand). But let’s rejoice while we can. Hungary’s Viktor Orban and his Fides... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Wild & Crazy Early 1970’s

  

  Born in 1947, I finished law school in 1970, but was still an immature, clueless kid, a dud at job seeking. Finally I interviewed at the State Public Service... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Great Author Discussion at Albany Library Tuesday

  

  Local author David Sylvester will be interviewed by poet Therese Broderick (my wife) about his recent Erie Canal crime novel, Hung Be the Heavens with Scarlet,... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• TV and Trump

  

  Isaac Asimov’s 1951 Foundation sci-fi trilogy had a character called “The Mule.” Initially a ridiculous figure, he had one special ability — actual mind reading... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coming Illegal Trump Gold Coin

  

  At our coin club Christmas party, I mentioned to a buddy that the U.S. Mint is planning a Trump coin.“No way,” he said. “You’re joshing.”No, this is real, I... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Answer for Long Airport Lines: Abolish TSA

  

  Because the regime won’t negotiate reasonable restrictions on its ICE paramilitaries, a partial government shutdown has hit not ICE but TSA air travel security... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Iran: Operation Blind Fury

  

  We’re at war in Iran because in 2011, President Obama joked about Trump at a Washington dinner.That made Obama his bête noire (almost literally, for racist... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY