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By Myself, But Not Alone, On New Year's Eve (corrected version)

By Myself, But Not Alone, On New Year's Eve

Echoes of Simon, Garfunkel and Ayn Rand

Santa's Tee Time

The Second Amendment Right to an Insurrection

Down Goes Rudy -This letter is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

Contributors to This Week's New Yorker

The Scavenger Hunt

Steve Austin, Babe Ruth and Shohei Ohtani

A Nap Interrupted

Chris, Put Your Hand Down

I Am Going to Miss George Santos

A Poem by Me, Published Today, With an Assist from Mr. Tennyson

A Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Published in 1850, That Resonates In Many Ways Today

Getting Away with Murder in Lying Color

Arlo Guthrie (Again) and the Downfall of a President

And the 2023 Uncle Harold Award Goes To...

Arlo Guthrie and Kevin Dowd

No more Santos Clause

A Heel for a Heel

The "I Don't Give a F..." Tour - The Nightmare Comes to a Not So Imagined Town Near You- A Tale of Almost Complete Fiction, Maybe

Your Honor. Your honor.

One Year from Today

The Red Balloon

When We Fall Down

Invitation to a Cemetery

With Bible in Hand and a Set of MAGA Values in His Pocket

Words - an edited version of this post is scheduled to appears in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

An edited version of my earlier post "A Letter of Apology?"(reprinted below) is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

A Letter of Apology?

Clean Up In Aisle 4

The Place Where I Reside

How Do You Kill an Idea?

While the World Has Not Been Watching

I have been absent from these pages (and will remain so a little while more) as people process, in their own way, the events that have unfolded over the past days.

An edited version of an earlier post "Shut Up and Shut Down" (reprinted below) is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the Washington Post

My Reply to the Response from Matt Gaetz to "The Insurrection - Part Two"

The Insurrection - Part Two

Shut Up and Shut Down

Passing the Baton

Arresting Behavior

This Is Getting Old

Collectors of Hate

Pin the Tail on a Jackass

Bad Boys (an expanded post)

A Simple Explanation

Tricks Up a Sleeve

Mr. Hyde Meets Dr. Jekyll

Say It Ain't So, Joe

A Front Row Seat

Waiting for the Soup to Boil

I'm Being Indicted for You

Fractured Whispers and Piercing Screams

Echoes of Woodstock

A Long Day's Journey Into Night

An edited version of the earlier post "Orli" is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

Presumed Prejudice

Red Meat or Vegetables

The First Republican Debate

Stick a Needle in Me

Narrow Field of Vision

Of a constitution and a Constitution

Forgotten But Not Yet Gone

The Gathering Storm

Climbing the Stairway to Heaven

The Goose and the Gander

Of Puppets and Their Master

Battles and Wars

Are We Really the Bad Guys?

The Pledge of Allegiance

An edited version of the earlier post, "The Heart of Darkness Indictment" is scheduled to appear in letters to the editor in the Boston Globe

Alanis Morissette and Donald Trump

The Heart of Darkness Indictment

Lend Me Your Ear

A Noun, A Verb and Rudy

A Man with Three Hips

A Human Pejorative

Claws of "The Bear"

The End of Camelot

All Amendments to the Constitution Are Not Created Equal

Mr. Gambini and Me

An Advanced Degree in Pain Management

Is the cost of "free"speech that the truth is now worth nothing?

July 4th - What does it now mean in America?

Clarence Thomas Sings "If I Only Had a Brain"

An Edited Version of my last post "Perfect" now appears online as a letter to the editor in the New York Times

Without a Trace

Justice Alito and John's Luncheonette

The Perfect Call Reimagined (a companion to this morning's piece)

This is a collect call from the President of the United States. Do you accept? -Governing from the Big House

The Sins of a Child

Governor, You Are No Jack Kennedy

Father's Day and Being a Son

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Huffing and Puffing

The Sound of Music

An edited version of the earlier post "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory" is scheduled to appear tomorrow in letters to the editor in the Boston Globe

Chris Christie, Lightweight

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Tuesday Afternoons

Republican's Great Wall

Double Secret Probation

I believe that an edited version of my last post "Jim Brown" will appear in letters to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (the city where Mr. Brown played his entire NFL career).

A 2023 "Ron-Don"

Phantom of the Opera and Donald Trump

The Long and Winding Road

George Santos Is a Duck

(One) Man's Best Friend

Maybe He Can't Shoot Someone in Broad Daylight After All- Trump's Punctured Invincibility

When the Storm Clouds Gather

Taking On Trump

See Evil Everywhere....Do Evil Anywhere

In A.I. We Trust

The 6:25 AM News

Homeless Bound (a Reimagined Anthem for the Homeless) (please read in conjunction with my very recent post)

Man Writes Perfect Two Hundred Word Letter to the Editor of the New York Times

Answers to Questions You Didn't Ask

Ronald Reagan Endorse Another Term for Joe Biden

My Real Birthday Present

The Vacuum Cleaner

You Bet Your Life

My Worst Birthday Ever

With Malice Towards All

Scratching an Itchy Trigger Finger

Murphy Hatches a Rock

The Company You Keep

An edited version of this post, "The Problem of the Transgender Athlete" now appears in letters to the Editor in the Washington Post

An Edited Version of "Indicted" Now Appears in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

You fall, she hauls

Of Precedents and Presidents

The Dead on the Doorstep

Crime and (No) Punishment

The Memorial Candle

Arrested Development

Nothing But Net

This Says It All

Man Finds Live Chicken In Elevator

Small Expectations

The Gentleman bug

Write Good. Speak Bad.

The Tangled Web

Sly as a Fox (News Anchor)

Not the place where you reside, but how you reside in that place

An edited version of my last post, "Bruce Willis, Ronald Reagan and Dotsy", is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

Bruce Willis, Ronald Reagan and Dotsy

Does It Hurt When You Do That?

Does One Plus One Add Up to Nothing?

Adding Insult to Enmity

The Divided State(s) of America

Changing The Course of History

The Magic Carpet Man

The Conflagration

No More Intelligence

The Night the Lights Went Out on Broadway (with a correction)

The Night the Lights Went Out on Broadway

The Meteorologist

A Line In the Sand

Hot Air, The Republican Party and the Brooklyn Bridge

There ain't no Santos clause

An edited version of my last post, "a house divided inside a House divided" now appears online in letters to the editor of the NY Times and is scheduled to appear in the print edition tomorrow

A house divided inside a House divided

Charlie McCarthy Fails in Bid to Become Dummy of the House

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