What Nancy Wants…

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...

The Fabulous Fifties?

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...

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...