I’m fortunate enough to interview talented writers and indie filmmakers on a regular basis, so I got in touch with a few of them and asked two basic questions: how they felt about the outcome of the presidential election, and what it meant to them as writers, artists, or patrons of the arts.
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Some 2016 Election Observations
This election has proven Donald Trump’s contention that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support.
Read More »Talking More Than Turkey – Preparing for Election Rancor to Rock Thanksgiving
If you are feeling like I am right now, you are dreading the inevitable holiday dinner sit down that could possibly turn into something like a wrestling cage match.
Read More »Trump Election: Who’s To Blame? Not Who You Think
If the party system isn't destroyed, and if our citizenry is not given the right to look outside of the far right and the far left to fill the most powerful positions in our government, our entire society is endangered.
Read More »Five Ironies of the Trump Victory
Trump's victory has been described as a populist revolt. Yet Clinton won a majority of the popular vote.
Read More »President-Elect Trump — The Morning After
We awake this morning to a new reality: President Elect Trump.
Read More »Language Matters: Manning Up for Women
"Man up." What a curious phrase to use in the context of a wave of accusations of sexual harassment and assault.
Read More »Alicia Machado’s Story Proves That Beauty Pageants Should Be Gone With the Wind
It would seem that it is time to dispense with these annual charades that advertise themselves as contests that supposedly empower women but do nothing more than qualify and objectify them.
Read More »Hero of the American Taxpayer: Why Clinton Won’t Draw Much Blood from Trump’s Tax Return Secrecy
Hillary Clinton shouldn't expect to score major political points by implying, or even showing, that Donald Trump doesn't pay his personal income taxes. It just puts him in a place where we all, at least on some level, wish we could be.
Read More »Language Matters: Trump and the Times – Calling a Lie a Lie
Those who respect the New York Times's journalistic integrity will do so even more if it begins to include among "all the news that's fit to print" calling out the lies, even the petty ones, told to the American people by those who aspire to lead them.
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