Lunatic Fringe

Germany is out in front in the race to stop Covid-19.  The country expects to start immunizing people against the disease before the year en...

  I voted for President Trump   early and in-person yesterday in New York so I’m positive my vote won’t end in a ditch, a drainage flume, or...

Sometimes I think writing poetry is taking the easy way out.   I think most people will agree that it is   easier than writing novels or n...

The Paris Review emails me a daily poem.   Some of them I get but many of them I don’t.   It’s not that I don’t like poetry but sometimes...

Jamel Brinkley Perusing Twitter I saw someone posted a tweet complaining of disappointment endings to short stories.  I thought it was fair ...

The Antifa Taliban who are everywhere shouting at the top of their lungs for the defunding of police departments should take a loo...

What it is. . . a film review The title of this film should be a clue this is not a fast-paced detective thriller, but more of a charact...

UPDATE:  Tessa Majors was 18, just starting out at NYC's Barnard College/Columbia University when she was confronted by three individu...

It’s predictable enough.    When the facts are in your favor, you pound the facts.    When the facts are not in your favor, you pound t...

      The media seems to like this picture of Tessa Majors. Her brightness bespeaks the tragedy. . . I’d been following the Tessa Major...

Andre Royo as "Bubbles" After watching so many episodes of “The Wire,” it’s been a little difficult for me to get into one ...

Defendant Amber Guyger.  Inset:  Botham Jean I’d heard about this case some time ago and rushed to judgment.  If you asked me about...

There is an old  KGB joke which shows the cynicism that pervaded all aspects of Soviet Communism:  “ A guy goes into a food market and asks:...

“Welcome to the Rileys” presents a very American-style movie which seems almost from a different era.  It kinda’ is, considering  th...