Month: April 2023

A celebrated Hollywood polymath–television producer, songwriter and award-winning author–Brian Neary has written a spy novel that’s “not like the others.” It’s a […]

This is what American Heroes look like. July 1, 1950. Miami. Both 22 years old. A jock. A fashion model. Both average […]

“Yes, they have more class.” –With apologies to the famous Fitzgerald-Hemingway exchange. Like their natural enemy the English, the French are of […]

Here is the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare,

The Strip, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. As the fictional movie character John Milton said, law done right is a “backstage pass to […]

You may dream in American. But you still live in the world. Salzburg, Austria. Far from being a museum piece (e.g., Venice, […]

Today is Earth Day, No. 53. The first was on April 22, 1970. It was started by the late U.S. Senator Gaylord […]

Flying is not the fun it used to be. If you came of age after The Great Neutering, here’s some great American […]

They’re picking up prisoners–and putting them in a pen. All she wants to do is dance. –Danny Kortchmar/WB Music Corp. ASCAP (1984) […]

b. Beaumont, France 1976

…are right here. Revel in their Wisdom. Ignore them at your Peril. Teach them to The Help.

Happy Birthday. Earth Day. 4.22.1970. Thank you my first boss Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes.

What if the regime of diversity, inclusion and equity produced a substantial breakdown of the day to day management of the Western […]

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” –H.G. Wells (1866-1946) “I have performed the […]

It makes little difference how many university degrees or courses a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an […]

Spring ignored Mankind and arrived as usual. Finally. Happy Spring to any fellow Druids, Life Worshipers and Optimists. Get out of your […]

Based on actual experience lawyering, we wrote and published 12 Rules of Client Service in installments during a six-month period starting in […]

Swift was a Titan in rebellion against Heaven. — John L. Stoddard, 1901 Anglo-Irish, Angry and Brave: See one of our past […]

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. —John Mason

1. Swive no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. Let no one leave anything in your home or hotel room. 3. […]

Job and His Friends, Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1810 There are bad days. A parent is sick. A child gets stitches. You are coming […]

The giddy drive to make all American civic strife a team sport or a cartoon “” complete with stock heroes and stock […]