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Look at him there, all but skipping across the stage in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.    He seems ready to deal with whatever comes next, including taunting his opposite-number VP candidate JD Vance in a debate CBS has proffered: “See you October,  1, JD,”  Walz tossed out, and now it’s booked.

To be sure, we live in distressing times.  We’ve been in entropy’s grip ever more frighteningly since January 6—as Trump feasibly plans a 2025 re-iteration--and it took the grim  events of October 7 and beyond to catastrophically highlight the depths of  man’s inhumanity to man. (And

For what reason is a man likely to step over the line? I answered, “Ambition, love, fear, money.”   From “All the King’s Men”  by Robert Penn Warren   Even in his current state as the picture next to the word “hypocrite” in the dictionary, Donald Trump’s choice for vice-presidential

No, I haven’t gone Marxist and abandoned the corporate capitalism model that’s made us all so happy. After all, we boast the world’s most onerous income inequality.  And we’re looking at the potential election of a porcine thug who blithely lies, cheats, sexually assaults women and

The longevity of the Rolling Stones almost seems a mystery—in former times a rather dark-hued one—but a mystery that everyone who sees them live in concert can solve with decent accuracy. (You know, the greatest rock band in the world. Somebody has to be. The trick is, they

From Premiere Magazine, September 1990:   "As star and director of ‘The Two Jakes,’ Jack Nicholson worked unstintingly to get the movie made. He won the battle - but did he lose Robert Towne as a friend?" In July of 1989, I found myself on the set of "