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"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." –Harry S Truman

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

"Pride of the Yankees"

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They won’t be making any movies with that title about A-Rod. His tawdry downfall won’t ever be mentioned in the same breath as Lou Gehrig’s...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

The Existential Terrors of August

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For someone with a grandchild due home from the Middle East next week, the State Department Alert about “potential for terrorist attacks” t...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Surveillance, Security and Sanity

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From his watery grave, Osama bin Laden is still punishing America. What he did on 9/11/01 still has us at one another’s throats over homelan...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Hillary and Bill, Huma and Anthony

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Can the past help make sense of the Clintons and Weiners today? Breaking up is hard to do, sang Neil Sadaka half a century ago, but go ...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Growing Cracks in Tea Party Cups

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You can’t hold your breath and say no forever. As the President turns his back on Congressional tantrums, some sane Republicans are starting...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Middle East Exhaustion: Tipping Point

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If new bloodshed in Egyp t is a wakeup call, could Syria be the last straw? Cairo is aflame again, with scores of protesters killed , b...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Christie Challenges GOP Park-Your-Heart Politics

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If nothing else, Chris Christie will be pumping blood into hardened Republican arteries between now and November 2016. Naming Rand Pau...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Sidelining Schmucks

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Ideological and ethnic opposites Anthony Weiner and Steve King are redefining shameless stupidity and uniting their own parties against th...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Next Royal Baby

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Now that Prince What’s-His-Name has made his fashionably late arrival and media royal womb watchers are all ag og , it behooves a former m...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

A Life in Black and White

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Now that Barack Obama has turned personal about race and started a national debate , an older witness is impelled to step forward and testif...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Netflix Hijacks the Emmys

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Talk about voter fraud, consider this: The brain-damaged “House of Cards” gets nine Emmy nominations this year while Aaron Sorkin’s brillia...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Obama's Calm Coda to a Painful Week

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“Trayvon Martin,” Barack Obama tells the nation, “could have been me 35 years ago.” In an unannounced, unscripted White House press roo...
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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