by John Mancini | May 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
I took a walk this morning across the county line into New York City (Queens) – I live in adjacent Nassau County, Long Island. It only took me a few minutes to experience the “open Biden border” crisis first hand. As you know, the millions of illegals being...
by Bill Dal Cerro | May 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
A new old-joke: What’s rarer than Haley’s Comet? Punchline: an unbashedly positive movie about Italian Americans. The last one was in 2014 with the film version (finally!) of WWII hero Louie Zamperini’s amazing life in Unbroken. It did so-so at...
by John Mancini | May 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
A strange thought occurred to me this week. Will Mother’s Day survive the Woke Revolution? What is a “mother” anyway? Shouldn’t it be called Birthing Person Day? If Nature has been replaced by Identity, nothing should be assumed. Everything is...
by Bill Dal Cerro | May 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
As referenced in a previous blog, there is, oddly, a sudden glut of Hollywood films being released which have either Italian American characters or Italian American themes. The first one was Air, a look at how NIKE cut their famous shoe deal with a then-unknown,...
by John Mancini | May 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Emperor Constantine There used to be a British TV series called Connections which explained how modern events or inventions were derived. The show connected all the historic dots. May 11th will be the anniversary of the founding of the city of Istanbul, Turkey...
by Bill Dal Cerro | May 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hard to believe it’s been three years since COVID was declared a world health emergency. And one of its earliest victims? Italy. Canine greeters at a Lucca store In one of the cruelest historical ironies ever, Italy, one of Earth’s most aesthetically...
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