An enterprising Typepad blogger has created a Webring for Typepad users. For those of you who do...
Matzo brei is a quintessentially Eastern European Jewish dish. For all I know, it may have originated...
Remember in the old days (1960s-1980s) when the Union of Atomic Scientists used to have a “Doomsday...
Marcy Silverstein (bottom left) & the Victory A.C. Nine–1920 The Goldsands and Silversteins came to Peekskill, NY,...
(credit: Andrzej Dudzinski/NYT) This is a remarkable film on the War Symphonies of Shostakovitch & covers roughly...
George Bush’s response to the Liberia bloodbath is morally bankrupt and reprehensible. Thousands of innocent Liberian civilians...
My son is in a play group with a group of other children around his age (he’s...
Tom DeLay, termite kingand Mideast policy expert When I heard that Tom DeLay, the Majority leader of...
If you’re like me, you’re starting to wonder why the California Recall is looking more and more...
My wife discovered a wonderful new Seattle restaurant, Casuelita’s, which features Caribbean cuisine. She introduced me to...
Today’s New York Times ran an article declaring that the Bush Administration might reduce U.S. aid to...
Since February, 2003 I’ve had a text blog on Blogger. Blogger was a great introduction to the...
