Steve Former Sen. Alan Simpson has always been a loose cannon with a kind of folksy arrogance, which I always liked. His latest cracks about Social Security, though, don’t crack me up. And that’s because he is on a panel appointed by Pres. Obama to come up with solutions to the long-term funding problem and all … Read more
For some reason starting thinking today about Abel Meeropol. He was a high school teacher at DeWitt Clinton here in NY. I don’t know much about him except three things. He wrote Strange Fruit after seeing a photo of a lynching. He and his wife adopted the Rosenberg children after they were orphaned by American … Read more
Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the Assembly. My take for Capitalnewyork.com.
As part of my New York Scenes series for The New Yorker I recently drew the Bocce (or Pétanque) players in Bryant Park. These guys play at lunch time and have a ball (actually more than one). The first piece was deemed too observant: the main fellow might not like all this attention. So a … Read more
In the current controversy over the proposed Muslim Center near the World Trade Center site we seem to have slipped from condemning radical Islam to Islam in general. This, in spite of the immense sacrifices our troops are making in the cause of moderate Islam overseas. Now this proposed Center, the model of moderation, with … Read more
