Victorious Lies

One day at college an African American dorm-mate snidely remarked that the Italian Army was a joke in World War II.  Those were the days just before The Godfather – book and movies – so the main “embarrassment” Italian Americans had to deal with was Mussolini’s...

FUNNY, THEY DON’T LOOK ITALIAN

In my last blog, I noted how the mainstream media rarely delves into Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s ethnic background. From personal experiences with regular folk, I would guess it’s for the same reasons – that people either consider it unimportant or...

The Plots Thicken

A gay man accuses Governor Ron DeSantis of luring him into a degrading sex act.  That was the plot of the final episode of the Paramount+ cable series The Good Fight, a spin-off of the previously successful broadcast series The Good Wife. Not having watched this...

Political Pasta

Last week was food, the conclusion of Stanley Tucci’s CNN series, Searching for Italy. This week, it’s national politics via the long-awaited midterms. As I type this blog (Saturday, November 12th), billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, a former Republican...

Italic Pot-Boilers

The election minestrone is being stirred and some Italian ingredients have reached their boiling point. All of a sudden, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) got so hot that he attacked fellow Dem President Joe Biden just the other day.  Seems that Biden is “divorced from...