by John Mancini | Nov 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Rumor has it that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to cap her career by being the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. She would be a shoe-in with a Democratic Senate to confirm her if nominated by President Biden. At 82-years-old the posting to Rome would be a...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
A family member recently lamented the current chaos of our times – the political, racial, and sexual polarization in the U.S.– with the following comment: “I’m glad I grew up in the 1950s. Kids were allowed to be kids. You didn’t see this gun...
by John Mancini | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by John Mancini | Nov 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
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