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Ah, the old holiday family gathering! Hugging each other. Exchanging loving pleasantries. Uh-oh, the new holiday family gathering! Glaring at each other. Exchanging hostile political barbs. This year, though, you made yourself a promise: you’re goi... More »
Imagine, if you will (and I realize this is a stretch, but indulge me) that online dating sites have been around for centuries…which, of course, would mean that computers have also been around that long (I said it was a stretch). Okay, now if that were the... More »
by Michael J. Mangano Since Ex-President Trump’s recent comment to Sean Hannity that he could declassify documents just “by thinking about it,” speculation has abounded that Trump had possibly joined the likes of Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, and especiall... More »
Italian luxury fashion house Gucci recently introduced an ultraexpensive umbrella that, oddly enough, isn’t waterproof. According to the company, it is meant as a fashion statement…a collector’s item. Strange as it seems, on the designer’s website ... More »
New York Magazine recently reported that a lady with a $10 million dollar home in the Hamptons, and who flies everywhere on private jets, prides herself in owning “fake” designer handbags. She’s just one of a group of extremely wealthy women who are stau... More »
…for women who flaunt their décolletage long after their décollet has aged. …for guys who continue to dress like Tony Manero despite the fact that Saturday Night’s Fever subsided decades ago. …for late-night TV sitcom reruns that we’ve seen so many... More »
Warning: Sarcastic Spoiler Alerts! The Sun Also Rises An impotent American, a slutty Englishwoman, and their questionable expatriate friends drink and fuck their way around Europe. (For a generation referred to as “lost,” they don’t seem to have much t... More »
Since its publication, The Da Vinci Code, though a work of fiction, has roused scholars’ imaginations to a point where many of them are reexamining – and in some cases challenging – prevailing opinions on a wide variety of historic topics. One new... More »
cautiously pessimistic: If, for example, a bad guy – like, say, a Charles Manson or a Jeffrey Dahmer – is injured but not doing that badly, doctors might say, “Well, unfortunately, he’s doing okay. So, right now, we’re just cautiousl... More »
A recent study stated that “The keys to a high-quality life after age 60 are health, money, and having a meaningful life.” Ah, if it were only that simple! Sure, those things are important – and not just after 60, but from the time you’re born (a n... More »
by Michael J. Mangano You grow up in then-unfashionable Brooklyn, become an adult and make enough money to afford moving out of Brooklyn to Manhattan’s fashionable, expensive east side – then, years later, you learn that, even if you wanted to, you can... More »
by Michael J. Mangano It has been seven centuries since the death of Dante Alighieri, and over those many years much has changed in the world…and possibly even in the netherworld. One can only imagine what modifications the author would make to some of the... More »