Cartoon
Maybe “bonus” is not really the right word, but I do share most of these columns on Facebook — but not all. I am not sharing this one, hence “bonus.” If you are new here, the Bykofsky Rule is this: If it makes me laugh, I use it. No political litmus
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The Day of Infamy turns me toward thinking about the Navy, Our Navy, and what it needs for the future. I know some of the regulars here are swabbies. Going into WWII, the modern navy needed battleships, even though Billy Mitchell had already proved the massive battlewagons were vulnerable to
Capitalism
Dear Jeff Bezos: Surprisingly, we have some things in common: You are believed to be the richest person in the world. I am believed to be the richest person on the 26th floor. You run Amazon. I run this website. You have an estimated $112 billion and you make $215
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Let’s talk about climate change. Don’t get hot under the collar. This won’t take very long and it won’t be too deep. A popular talking point on right-wing cable TV (looking at Russian sock pupp et Tucker Carlson) is how the crazy environmentalists want to ground
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The reason a handful of protesters showed up in front of Boyd’s Center City store on Black Friday is “because every day is black for animals used for their fur,” says Marianne Bessey, manager of campaigns for PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. [Disclosure: I am a
Politics
My family was immune from the verbal pyrotechnics that sometimes plague the major clan-gathering events at year’s end — Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why? We celebrated neither. We were not anti-American. We were Jewish and while you may understand us not hoisting a Christmas tree (although some of us did), many
Police
“There is no such thing as racism.” A ludicrous statement. Here’s another: “Everything is racist.” No one says those words, but it is evident in the way some people reach for the R-word with no actual evidence. I’ll give you a recent example, one that comes from — brace
Politics
As the clock ticked toward 4 p.m., Ambassador Gordon Sondland looked like he needed a double scotch and a full body massage. After a full day of hearings, what I am hearing is that President Trump ordered military aid withheld until Ukraine ordered an investigation into corruption, which included
Culture
Did you ever believe in Santa Claus? I did, and that was so long ago if you said old Saint Nick was white, no one batted an eye lash. A few years ago that belief was one of the bill of particulars that led to Megyn Kelly losing her job
Guns
As with some other large cities — Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis — Philadelphia is experiencing what could be called an epidemic of gun crime. While Philly crime has been halved over the past couple of decades, homicides here are climbing. Attaboy, Mayor Jim Kenney, D.A. Larry Krasner and former
President Donald Trump
I am no fan or supporter of Donald Trump, whom I consider to be a boorish, low-brow, weirdly coiffed, inarticulate embarrassment. He is the Fourth Stooge. I feel that way but I still hesitate to embrace the soon-to-be-published book called “A Warning” by an anonymous author who is identified as
Journalism
Here’s a perfect example of how a blog differs from a newspaper column. What I am about to do I could not do in a newspaper column, but I can here because of the deeper level of intimacy between writer and reader. I am an analog guy in a