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Maybe the answer to the closing the ever-widening and positively despicable gap between rich and poor — a chasm into which more and more of the middle class are tumbling — lies in the title of a book by P.J. O’Rourke and songs by Aerosmith and Motorhead: EAT THE RICH. Maybe the answer is for [...]
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Tags: Aerosmith, Bernie Sanders, Economy, Lao Tze, Motorhead, P.J. O'Rourke, rich and poor, tax breaks for the wealthy, Thoreau, wealthy
Her voice sounds like music to my ears. So why was I surprised by this latest revelation about the amazing Sarah Palin? One of the all-time classic music videos shows a very young Aretha Franklin, circa late 1960s, as she sings “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Watch — and enjoy — the video. But watch Aretha’s lips as she [...]
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Tags: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", Aretha Franklin, Humor, Music, Sarah Palin, soul music
Little Sarah Palin
Some of you have asked if I was surprised when Sarah Palin became governor of Alaska and then ran for vice president of the United States and then became a Fox News commentator. Was I surprised? You betcha! I mean, who wouldn’t be surprised? After all, this is little Sarah Palin, the cute and spunky [...]
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Tags: Fox News, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, satire, Yonkers
I don’t know about all of you, but I haven’t been able to break away from watching the live hearings being televised on C-SPAN as Alaska legislators debate the proposal to rename their state in honor of Sarah Palin. The debate, in case you haven’t been following this, isn’t over whether to change the state’s [...]
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Tags: Alaska, Sarah Palin
Note: Traffic on this site soars whenever I mention Sarah Palin. So I’ve decided to write something about her at least once a week. Here’s this week’s Sarah Palin report: Faithful readers of “World of Wonders” know that I posted several entries in recent weeks about the Feb. 20 grand opening of friend Steven Hart’s [...]
Filed under: Book talk, books, Humor, New Jersey, Politics, Sarah Palin, writing | 1 Comment
Tags: Highland Park, Highland Park NJ, N.J., New Jersey bookstores, Nighthawk Books, Sarah Palin, Steven Hart
Sarah rises to the occasion
Note: Traffic on this site soars whenever I mention Sarah Palin. So I’ve decided to write something about her at least once a week. Here’s this week’s Sarah Palin report: She’s been a mayor. She’s been a governor. She’s been a candidate for vice president. She may try to become the actual president. And she’s [...]
Filed under: Humor, Olympics, Politics, Sarah Palin | 3 Comments
Tags: figure skating, Sarah Palin, Winter Olympics
Sarah Palin to the rescue!
One of the highest-traffic days ever for “Nicholas DiGiovanni’s World of Wonders” was a day during the presidential campaign when I wrote a satirical piece suggesting that Sarah Palin’s presence on the GOP ticket as the vice-presidential candidate was actually the fulfillment of the Book of Revelation’s apocalyptic vision as described in the secret message [...]
Filed under: Humor, New Jersey, Politics, Religion, Sarah Palin, Weather | 3 Comments
Tags: New Jersey, New Jersey blizzard, New Jersey snow storm, New Jersey Turnpike, Sarah Palin, seventh seal, Tea Party
The title of this blog post is also, believe it or not, the title of the longtime official state song of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The song was written by an African-American named James Bland back in the 1800s. And the lyrics go like this: Carry me back to old Virginny, There’s where the cotton [...]
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Tags: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", bigotry, Blue Ridge Mountains, James Bland, Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, prejudice, rural poverty, state songs, VCCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia snow storm, Walton's Mountain Museum
Standing together
Can a song change the world? I walked into my favorite cafe this morning and John Lennon was singing “Tomorrow Never Knows” and I’m wagering that there’s a song that changed somebody’s world, maybe even mine. What about something by Bach? By Charley Patton? By Billie Holiday? By Elvis? Did “That’s Alright Mama” change the [...]
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To get an answer to that question, I guess readers of these essays will have to wait and see. Come to think of it, so will I. November was frantic and December was chaotic and January so far has been…What’s a good word?….Ominous? Apocalyptic? Nostradamussy? Did I just invent a new word? The economy collapsing [...]
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