It will not surprise you to know that I thought the President’s speech yesterday was spot on, especially in its focus on putting people back to work modernizing our national infrastructure.  Try to find time to watch “A Better Bargain for the Middle Class” . . . and the subsidiary speeches he will be […]

THAT 1987 INTERVIEW

Bill S.:  “I watched the Werner Erhard tape with great interest. It was amusing to hear you lament how 30 year Treasury rates were only 9% after hitting 15% five years back. I liked your suggesting keeping assets in cash just weeks before the Black Monday crash. (I also liked hearing […]

But first . . .

I just had my first plumogranate!  Oh . . . joy!

And now . . .

This has suddenly shown up on the Internet — I have no idea why — and so . . . in the spirit of Nick at Nite . . . I offer […]

COFFEE TOFFEE

Just when you had despaired that The Frieze would never again have their Coffee Toffee Crunch — not to say that the Lychee sorbet, almost always in stock, is anything short of life-changing, either, but it’s not Coffee Toffee Crunch — you return one last time, and there, at last . . […]

I met Mike Wallace only once, at a National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association dinner years ago (he was already in his eighties but playing tennis every day and far too young in his thinking  to decline our invitation) and like most Americans, I felt I had come to know him over the years, one […]