In his introduction to Travels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigations (1991) Ron Rosenbaum tells how he amused himself in "the uneventful suburb of my childhood" by reading cartons of Hardy B...
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I think I may have missed something important in my initial take on the assault and attempted kidnapping of Elie Wiesel by a Holocaust denier. Are you familiar with this Feb. 1 incident? Don’...
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I don't want to spoil the party, but while everyone's celebrating Deep Throat as if he "solved" Watergate, the real culprit, the perpetrator of the initial crime, the man who actually ordered the W...
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Surf's up, dudes. At least it has been for those of us who have been watching the wide array of surf flicks that have shown up on cable this winter. It's smart programming: repeated showings of The...
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Beautiful Despair. The great country-and-western singer-songwriter, Rodney Crowell, was passing through town on a bitter cold February day, and I got a chance to talk to him about "beautiful despai...
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Attention, all of you out there with Adjustment Problems, with Bad People Skills. Bring me your tired, your Poorly Adjusted, all you with Serious Attitude Problems and Persistent Authority Issues. ...
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Remind me again how "the terrorists win" if we don't build the real-estate folly that calls itself "Freedom Tower"? Oh, right: If we build it, Osama bin Laden will be sobbing in his cave over the s...
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