Imagine you are playing the game show “Match Game” and Gene Rayburn asks you: The New York City Department of Education is SOOO DUMB…” HOW DUMB IS IT? Well, they called me on the telephone asking me to update my
I’m walking down this street that is usually filled with homeless people up against the sides of buildings and someone sets up a radio blasting NPR NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. So instead of some funky music I’m hearing about some meeting
This posting has various vignettes at the top, serious discussion about global troublespots later on, and links to travel notes about recent trips to Iceland and Ireland at the end of this posting. One Sunday, at the last minute, I
Iceland is a country of 350,000 people that punches above its weight. It’s got some beautiful architecture, a diverse population because it is a Schengen country within the EU (and which helps it avoid staffing shortages in the tourist industry
This is in the department of true stories you think are so stupid that they are not true. If you want to talk about kids in private school, you might have heard the line “He’s the kind of kid who
Earlier this month, I dusted off my passport after more than 2 years and went to Dubai to the Expo and stopped off in London. It was nice to get out again. Travel notes follow at the end of this
Almost nothing other than toilet paper and paper towels comes in paper anymore. It’s become hard to buy a newspaper in an airport, hotel or on the street. This is not great news for a guy who has a masters
You know you’re tired when you give out an address you lived at 20 years ago when ordering something. We went to this haunted house for Halloween and, for the first time in NYC, I went to something where nobody
I’ve had the daily challenge of writing hilarious letters to my kids at camp and I’ve done my best to come up with some real doozies. For instance, have you heard about the invasion of zombie-led Mexicans putting Trump back
I started writing this in April and waited till early July to post this to see how things sorted themselves out and to be sure this material wouldn’t be obsolete by the time it was published– there’s a lot of
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