Will the left finally stop coddling criminals? Here are excerpts from an article by David Marcus at nypost.com. The first concerns ex-NBA great, liberal icon Bill Walton, a supporter of Black Lives Matter: “Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early this Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened…

Given all the problems facing NYC, what is Mayor Adams doing in Puerto Rico? What possible use could he be to the island? Once a person retires, he/she needs something to do to fill time. A 71-one-year male spends several hours each day trolling, scolding speeding, red light-blowing cyclists through…

Among a recent donation of books to my curbside enterprise was The Other Side of Gold by Alexander Jacobs. Obviously fantasy, I was uncertain whether it was geared to kids, so I looked inside and discovered it was likely self-published. Since nearly all of my 13 books are self-published, I…

RIP Louise Fletcher, 89, whose performance as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) will endure as long as mankind does. There are 136 other titles under her name at IMDb, career spanning 1958–2017. Born in Alabama to deaf parents, she graduated from the University of North…

Agatha Christie is the second-most popular author in history, after Shakespeare, who had a few hundred years head start on her. There have been more than 30 filmed adaptations, 14 non-English, of her novels. Last night I was scanning with the remote and checked the PBS station All Arts, 21–4…

Margo Robbie and Ryan Gosling are making a Barbie movie. It will be interesting to see how it is received. I’m skeptical and hope to be surprised. Photo from Google Images: The city of Rockwall, Texas, population 45,000, has planted a 200-foot flagpole to show its patriotism. Photo from GI:

As I was taking my pre-dawn walk, I noted the beautiful stillness, the trees still in full bloom, the cloudless sky, and I was visited by the simple thought that life on earth is Paradise Lost, especially in light of the increased violence and political strife the world is currently…

RIP base-stealer extraordinaire Maury Wills, 89, whose career spanned 1959-’72. Born in DC, the seventh of 13 children, he was All-City in baseball, basketball and football in his junior and senior years. Drafted by the Dodgers, he spent eight seasons in the minors before getting the call mid-season in ’59…

Headline from nypost.com: “Tech workers getting leg-lengthening surgery that costs up to $150K: report.” According to the accompanying article by Thomas Barrabi: “…doctor breaks the femur in each of a patient’s legs and inserts extendable metal nails. The nails are gradually extended over the next three months by one millimeter…