Why I’m For Caroline

As a once and future New Yorker I have at least some small stake in Governor Paterson’s impending appointment to the State’s soon-to-be-open Junior Senator’s seat. The stake is unlikely ever to be anything other than small because the Empire...

Frost/Other People

Last night SNL turned its attention to F/N and came up with a mildly amusing F/OP.   One definite pleasure is watching Darrell Hammond’s Langella’s Nixon.  

Amazing Disgrace

Hattie Carroll died in 1963. William Zantsinger died last Saturday; his death is reported in today’s papers. Hattie Carroll lives on. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond...

9 January 2009: RN’s 96th Birthday

  I was born in a house my father built.  My birth on the night of January 9, 1913, coincided with a record-breaking cold snap in our town of Yorba Linda, California.  Yorba Linda was a farming community of 200 people about thirty miles from Los Angeles, surrounded by...