Religion
Welcome to Yom Kippur, or as spell check calls it, Tom Kipper. You probably know it is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. If you didn’t -- you do now. It’s roughly a week behind Rosh Hashanah, 'head of the year,' the Jewish new year.
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Google is one of the greatest inventions ever made by Man, (or, for the PC -- by Woman, Undecided, or Non-binary 🤓). It’s right up there with pantyhose, air conditioning, mood rings, and fork-split English muffins. All things we can’t live without. Before I heap praise on Google, let
9/11
It has been 20 years since the attack that changed America, and in those 20 years not a single attack against us was planned and executed from Afghanistan. In case you forgot, that’s why we went in -- to destroy the al-Qaeda terrorist network and bring to justice its
Political Correctness
With Covid-19, the fair-minded among us might feel that the Centers for Disease Control has fallen short of Nobel caliber performance. There were wildly exaggerated estimates, there were advisories that were issued and promptly reversed, there were false alarms, and so on. And yet, praise God, amid the epidemic, busy
Journalism
This is a perfectly accurate headline -- given the white, monied areas the hurricane and tornadoes hit hardest -- but I somehow did not expect to see it in the race-conscious Inquirer. And I didn’t. 😃
Health Care
I guess I went about 60 years before ever visiting (interesting word choice) a dermatologist, a.k.a. skin doctor. That was at the recommendation of my GP, a.k.a. General Practitioner, or my family doctor, located deep in South Philly, where I lived for a decade. This was
Joe Biden
About now, with the U.S. out of Afghanistan, some Bidenite is filing nomination papers for the Nobel Peace Prize. And if Joe Biden were Black, he’d win. Barack Obama won with no peace achievements, just a bunch of promises, some kept, some not. Kept: He pulled troops out
Dogs
As you guys were moving into the sixth heat wave of the year, we were moving into a red Ford Edge loaner to get us 5 hours away, to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Mountains = cooler temps. But the long-weekend vacation was only partially weather-motivated. The major motivation was to
Immigration
Imagine running for your life, from your life in Afghanistan, being able to take only what fits in a knapsack, or a wheeled suitcase. Look at this picture. Everything of value is in the pitifully small carry ons they were permitted to bring. Maybe some money and valuables, but little
Joe Biden
Despite Americans’ fabulously short memories, Joe Biden’s presidency is riding on his ability to do what he sort-of promised by August 31. And that was, unquestionably, the evacuation of all Americans who want to leave the hellhole of Afghanistan, plus the desire to rescue Afghans a) who worked with
Press Card
As an author, there’s nothing like receiving a box ‘o books to end the gestation period. It is sort of like birth, but there will be no gender reveal. Those books are already in the mail. A second printing has been ordered. After six decades of writing journalistic nonfiction,
Sports
The big pink chair will be empty this Eagles’ season. It was Uncle Curt’s chair for Eagles daytime games, when he walked over from his Center City apartment to mine, two blocks away. Two things were certain: Uncle Curt brought a half-gallon of Diet Pepsi that he bought in