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Looking backward

We live in a time when everyone is nostalgic for times past. Hey, this newspaper is devoting two issues to your memories. Retro is hip. We are all living "back in the day," as...

Get over it

My Uncle Nunzi has always told me when you grow old, you feel as if you have a license to tell people what you truly think. No matter what people say, they really never...

The Church responds

It wasn't sad enough that last week the grand jury issued its blistering report of the sexual abuse of children in the Philadelphia Archdiocese. It wasn't sad enough that a cover up of the...

‘Tis autumn

When you are young, the end of summer is a sad thing. But youth feels there is a lifetime of summers stretching out endlessly that will return each year. Youth looks at the leaves...

Accentuate the positive

Uncle Nunzi tells me I've been too negative lately. For as long as I can remember, my Mom liked to sing a line from an old song: "You've got to accentuate the positive and...

Stuff happens

We really shouldn't be surprised by the looting and chaos in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We've seen it all before when the Bushies are in charge, just not here in America. W. might...

25 things I learned this summer

1-You can't peddle pot in America, but you can backpeddle on the war. 2-When Pat Robertson talks about "taking you out," it could mean he wants to treat you to dinner or he wants you...

Two tales of bigotry

It was just your normal morning on WIP. Angelo Cataldi was interviewing a babe whose main claim to fame, given Angelo's audible drooling on the microphone, was her bust size. Since I had tuned...

Clearing the brush

Our presidents' hobbies set a tone for the times in which they serve. Truman played the piano. Eisenhower loved golf. Kennedy relaxed by sailing and by playing touch football with the family. Even Bill...

It’s been a good summer

I understand Michael Jackson has been busy this summer. He apparently has changed the name of Neverland to Sin City. You know it turns out the jurors on the Jackson trial are nuttier than...
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