By Mickey Friedman November 18, 2018 These last few weeks have brought it all back. The President’s mockery of low-I.Q. Maxine Waters, his constant lies about the “evil” and “bad’ Democrats, his and FOX-not-really-the-news demonization of the poor men, women…
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Get Back Loretta
November 3, 2018 By Mickey Friedman I’m guessing most people won’t get this: “by 2100, global sea level rise would be 10 cm lower with global warming of 1.5°C compared with 2°C. The likelihood of an Arctic Ocean free of…
The Kids Again
By Mickey Friedman October 19, 2018 There was a time when I wouldn’t watch the news or read the national newspapers. Now that I occasionally comment about national and international affairs, I feel compelled to daily check the Times, Washington…
Community
I received a certificate in 1981 from Monterey Grange #291 for “efforts to instill cooperation and positive purpose in our community.” Of course, no one in my Bronx neighborhood belonged to a Grange. None of us made it past the…
Murder
By Mickey Friedman March 11, 2018 One moment and Ñacuñán was dead. He was in my life then gone. There is death and then there is murder. Murder is especially brutal – obviously for the victim but for those who…
My Head Hurts
March 17, 2017 By Mickey Friedman I don’t know about you but my head hurts. My brain is bruised. Too much tapping. I survived McCarthyia, that bizarre American world of Senator Joe McCarthy and the Dulles Brothers, with a Commie…
The Bug Ban
March 3, 2017 By Mickey Friedman You never know who you’ll meet at Fuel. I was writing about my friend Frank and The Deli when this guy asked to use the outlet beneath my table to charge his phone. I…
The Trump Test
By Mickey Friedman December 29, 2016 Bewail and bemoan. Because you are more virtuous than those, insert here whatever variation of deplorable you prefer, who voted for that … With their explosions of righteous indignation, you’d imagine these vociferous critics…
Maybe Mushrooms Are Magic
By Mickey Friedman December 15, 2016 I have watched people I love suffer not only life-threatening cancers but the depression and anxiety that accompanies cancer. My mother descended into a paranoid hell as her cancer metastasized and spread to her…
Deplorable
By Mickey Friedman December 1, 2016 Those who weren’t listening are forced to hear; those who wouldn’t see to see. And surprise, surprise they are not happy. Blame the FBI. Or those racist, sexist, gay-bashing everybody-elses who are now everywhere.…
JoJo, Jordan, and the Climate Crisis
August 29, 2016 By Mickey Friedman One of the problems of living in such a sophisticated community is that there aren’t many folks I can talk to about The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and during the summer, Bachelor in Paradise.…
Feeling Stupid
By Mickey Friedman September 9, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON, MA — I don’t like feeling stupid. Of course, there have been times when I’ve been really stupid. Like all those times I didn’t do my homework, and sat there the next…