Over the past year, I’ve written a few pieces about Georgie Santos, the former Drag Queen of a thousand lavish costume changes and faces, as he and his fellow blowhards like Steve Bannon, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin and Kevin McCarthy inflated Santos, like a Diva Diribigle, onto the New York…

In the frontispiece to Volume II of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitizer Prize winning graphic novel, Maus, there is a quote from a 1930’s newspaper article from Pomerania, Germany: “Mickey Mouse is the most miserable ideal ever revealed…Healthy emotions tell every independent young man and every honorable youth that the filth-covered vermin…

I have been haunted by two memories this week. Memories which have come back to me as nightmares, blaring to me like air-raid sirens in the night, because they tried to warn us — some 30 years ago — of the mass murders which just occurred in Israel, the killing…

I Stand With Humanity. Not jingoistic vanity. I stand with self-determination, Not a flag, nor song, nor any nation. I stand with dignity, life and love, Not some messianic fiction of superiority, Obtained from above. I stand with equality, Either real or aspirational; With the value of each life, Being…

There’s already been too much teeth-gnashing among many progressives over the news that Gym Jordan is throwing his jock strap into the ring for the fight over who will now be Donald Trump’s new spokesperson in the Speaker’s Chair. In response to many of my liberal colleagues bursting into flames…

I knew I was taking a risk, When I gave notebooks marked’ “The Book Of Life,” To each of our granddaughters, Ages 14, 11 & 7, At Rosh Hashanah dinner, With a side of rainbow-colored challah. “The Book of Life,” intimidated me Since I became a Jew at age 30. …

I heard the news today that Bob McMillan died, and I was sad. Sure, we’re all gonna go sometime, and Bob lived a long, well-loved life until he was 91 years old and passed peacefully in his sleep, the way all fine folks would be fortunate to say good night. …

The Song Movement Endures Far Beyond “Margaritaville.” (This is snapshot from a New York Times video about Victor Jara, which accompanied a 2018 story by the Times Clyde Haberman entitled “How a Folk Singer’s Murder Forced Chile to Confront Its Past.”. …

The Mugly Ugh shot of Rudy Giuliani taken by the Fulton County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office this week, came some 24 years too late. We would have loved to have this glaring, glowering, ghoulish photo of NYC’s own Prince of Darkness up on placards when thousands of us marched across the…