Widower's Tango

Why are there so many lists being published lately? Even respectable news publications have found it necessary to publish lists - of not...

Martin Scorsese made some rather oblique remarks about the ongoing decline of cinema in an Associated Press interview featured in an artic...

INTO THE TWILIGHT OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twiligh...

Last week, after one of the latest false claims from Donald Trump, Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse remarked, “We are in the mids...

"Is there no by-law in America to prevent dogs from entering cemeteries?" (Charles Baudelaire, commenting on the scabrous notice...

[From April 8, 2015. Oliver Stone went to some lengths a few years ago to convince us of the USSR's contribution to the war against Fasc...

[From January 7, 2015. Little moments like this are typical of life in the military.] Night at the Crossroads There have been mom...