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…

Humiliation House

October 6, 2018 By Mickey Friedman I’m not big on conferences, but won’t miss the Annual Gathering of Opinion Columnists from Small Weekly Newspapers and Even Smaller Blogs, purveyors of the prestigious SWAMBY Awards. I co-host “The Worst Columns We’ve…

K.A.C. M.V.P.

September 23, 2018 By Mickey Friedman Let’s hear it for the great people who serve and have served us in Washington D.C. Like the Mooch, Reince, and Spicey. In sports, we’ve got the NBA All-Star Weekend, baseball’s Home Run Derby,…

I Need Space

By Mickey Friedman September 8, 2018 Just heard from Brad Parscale and the Trump Re-election Campaign about the new Space Force gear. Those who say the upcoming midterm election is the most important yet haven’t seen the six possible Space…

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…

Bye-bye Black-Footed Ferret

August 10, 2018 By Mickey Friedman I have a thing about penguins, and like most of you respect our friends with fur and fins and wings. But I also have an Uncle Otis who barely manages to read my columns…

Vladimir I, USA 0

By Mickey Friedman July 30, 2018 Like many of you I have watched our world turned upside down. Unlike most of you I had a father who for a host of reasons, sensible and delusional, allowed himself to believe the…

The Best Baked Town in America

When it comes to statues, W.E.B. DuBois could use some company. If you’ve actually read him, you know his lifelong concern with racism, social and economic oppression, his genius, often made him impatient, not the most mellow of men. How…

Screw The Meek and Mild

By Mickey Friedman July 4, 2018 Clearly, the President is suspicious about what they’re doing up there. Something’s a bit off. How else do they have the best hockey players? Not to mention that quirky national anthem our NBA players…

Warzones

By Mickey Friedman June 16, 2018 Once it was fairly easy for white people. The native-Americans were forced to ever-dwindling, degrading reservations. Our foreign enemies were oceans away. The folks to fear were the blacks, but they were outnumbered and…