Election prediction
The winner will be someone who is despised by more than half the country, and that half of the country will not be reconciled to the outcome but will continue to despise the winner and resist his or...
View ArticleMarv Cermak’s last wish
My old friend Marv Cermak finally got his wish — after five and a half years of bitter suffering, he died. He could hardly walk, hardly open and close his hands, hardly endure the constant pain. “I...
View ArticleAt last, a therapy pig
Surely the American people’s mawkishness over animals has reached its endpoint with the introduction to Albany International Airport of a therapy pig. I should have known it would come to this. I was...
View ArticleIsraeli general’s son
One event I’m looking forward to is the talk this coming Tuesday (Jan. 17) by Miko Peled, the San Diego-based activist who comes from a distinguished Israeli military family and now campaigns on behalf...
View ArticleA dubious bet
I dropped in at the new casino in Schenectady the other day, just to check it out, and let me tell you, despite all the hype about transforming Schenectady into a place that people want to go to rather...
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