A friend my age says, “I am having an increasingly difficult time understanding society.” I cynically suggested to him we no longer have a society, but various age, race, gender, socio-economic, political, cyber or media tribes to which we adhere … Continue reading
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Once, when the world was a politer place, it was considered rude to speak ill of the dead. But some people’s lives are hard to burnish. The Columbia pictures movie mogul, Harry Cohn, was famously crude, bullying, and crass, yet … Continue reading
The late, great Richard Condon was the grand master of the satiric, paranoid thriller. In books like “The Manchurian Candidate,” Condon suggested a Joe McCarthy type anti-communist extremist was actually a communist tool at the center of a plot to … Continue reading