Hell, I didn't even make it to Cambridge weekend before last, and that's more my scene. Cambridge NY, I mean ( Read more... )

One of you has asked, and perhaps some of you have wondered, just what the hell is this neocon-paleocon thing. Isn't neocon just a word used by anti-Semites to smear everything good, clean, and decent ( Read more... )

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Well I am checking in here again. But this time, for the first time, I am not going to be able to scroll back over the pages and pages of days and days of posts. I therefore must ask you to leave a comment if there is anything you think I ought to know, or just want to tell me ( Read more... )

The bad news (for some) is that I am not posting regularly yet. The good news, known to all you paleocons out there, is that John Zmirak, author of the new Grand Inquisitor comic book, has blogged our last visit to Turkish Bellydance Night at the Sushi Bar. Perhaps I should say, Turkish Music night with eclectic bellydancing. Or Brooklyn Turkish ( Read more... )

I am a Catholic American. When I was a little kid, knee high to a trilobite, some folks still had a problem with that. My mother was one of them. As long as I was a Catholic like my father (and her own mother as a little girl in Ireland and on the lower East Side), I couldn't be a real American like her father, a bookbinder replaced by a machine ( Read more... )

Destentified.  Took a Tylenol 3 in the waiting room afterwards for when the local wore off, but have not needed a second, at least so far ( Read more... )

Although my daughter is (or was) one of the notorious Bleacher Creatures, I have never been inside the Stadium, though I once changed trains there conducting some Sough Bronx adult education students to the Coney Island aquarium. Divine Providence, in the form of a cat-loving Baviarian pianist gives me one last chance before they tear it down. (I ( Read more... )

I have a Friday morning appointment for a procedure than should remove the cause of the discomfort I am still experiencing.  On the other hand, I can't predict the discomfort, pain might not be too strong a term, of the procedure itself or during the following days, never mind the anxiety leading up to the undoubtedly minor (in comparison with the ( Read more... )