I visited my dad today on his 95th birthday (National Cemetery, Farmingdale). The experience felt atavistic. I couldn't help but ponder ...

 After four months in the hospital I finally returned home yesterday. It was a lengthy stay -- the last time I washed my hair Joe Biden was ...

Reading Jimmy Breslin reminds me of the New York of my youth. Back then the city wasn't only dirty and dangerous, it was corrupt. Briber...

Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday (1809). He was, of course, our 16th President until assassinated in office in 1865. I'm not norm...

Jimmy Breslin was the best newspaperman of the 20th Century. He achieved fame through trenchant writing and uninvited circumstance. Breslin...

Humans are weird. They ignore most nature but fetishize some cuddly animals. Like the capybara, a giant rodent. The capybara is both a roden...

Today is the Chinese/Lunar New Year! One of the most important holidays in Asia it inaugurates the new "Year of the Snake." So sto...