Intellectually dead
So here is the way it is now: Ameri-cans have gotten intellectually lazy over the years.
More have college degrees, but few bother to read. If we read at all, it’s pretty much headlines and...
The president’s veto
George W. Bush had a chance to make the history books. Until last week he had never vetoed a bill. He was set to join a handful of American presidents who never used this...
Small ideas
The fad in trendy restaurants is small plates - "tapas." I recently took Uncle Nunzi and his friend Vito to one of those hot new spots and they were less than thrilled. The waitress...
Jewels of the Northwest
On a recent trip to Seattle and Vancouver ... It is said a 9-year-old girl, astonished by the amount of greenery in Seattle, Wash., once remarked it looked just like the Emerald City in...
A City’s failure of vision
This did not start out as a column. It started out as a personal problem we have been experiencing with the sewer frequently backing up into our basement during thunderstorms. Like a lot of...
Uncle Nunzi dreams of Ann Coulter
I found Uncle Nunzi standing on a 10-foot ladder painting the front of his seashore home in Wildwood. As he moved the brush back and forth, he puffed on his ever-present black stogie, achieving...
So don’t press One
I receive a lot of angry e-mails. You can tell a lot about where America is at by the angry e-mails you receive. A month ago, my e-mails told me many Americans were upset...
Understanding Vito
'The Sopranos" has made fun of the mob and taken on corrupt priests and Italian stereotypes without causing much fuss in this area. But Vito changed all that. In a feudal world where machismo...
The latest spy story
Were you shocked to find out our government wasn't telling us the whole truth about its secret spying? Well, otherwise it wouldn't be a secret, right? Remember when President Bush told us his National...
