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I saw Alex Trebek naked, seriously

I didn’t only see Alex Trebek naked. I stood next to him naked. Well, thatĢƵ not right. I wasn’t naked. But sure enough he was. As naked as a smart-boy contestant without an answer ... I mean ... a question during Final Jeopardy. Whatever.The longtime host of TVĢƵ Jeopardy just ...

Republicans have an “AOC” phobia

For Republicans, there is, indeed, a national emergency.They’ll swear it could easily destroy America, while it lays waste to our way of life.This national emergency isn’t caused by anything sneaking north from Mexico.It started in the Bronx and Queens New York.Right-wingers don’t even ...

Resuscitating the American Dream

From a mezzanine seat at the University of PittsburghĢƵ basketball arena, I had a birdĢƵ eye view of hundreds of student-fans from Butler High School, there to root their school team to victory.Assigned a section behind one basket, the students spent most of the game on their feet, jumping ...

He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat

President TrumpĢƵ “ex-fixer” Michael Cohen has no reason to sing TrumpĢƵ praises.Trump frequently calls him a “rat.”So, when Cohen appeared before the House Oversight Committee for eight hours last Wednesday, he fired a barrage of carefully worded attacks aimed directly at the ego ...

Democratic hopefuls need to drop by

In the middle of his hectic and ultimately fatal campaign for president, Robert Kennedy took the time to visit West Virginia, a state with few convention delegates.Kennedy, who announced his candidacy a mere six months before Democratic convention delegates were scheduled to select a nominee, ...

Trying to find a little perspective

Perspective?ThatĢƵ what I was looking to find when I peeked at some of the columns I’d written for this space ten years ago.My how things have changed.I wrote notes for each of the hundreds of those columns (more than 600 of them) to help me form my opinions.For instance, in a note I wrote ...