By Mickey Friedman June 16, 2018 Once it was fairly easy for white people. The native-Americans were forced to ever-dwindling, degrading reservations. Our foreign enemies were oceans away. The folks to fear were the blacks, but they were outnumbered and…
Author: Mickey Friedman
Oligarchs
By Mickey Friedman June 5, 2018 The obvious is often missed. Until it rises up and comes crashing down upon us. So much TV talk about the great mystery. Why are there Russians everywhere you look in Trumpovia? The former…
A Whole Lot of School Supplies
By Mickey Friedman May 25, 2018 You can’t make this stuff up. Which is a burden for writers, because we make things up and hope it’s believable. But today unbelievable is everywhere. Imagine what it’s like for comedians who are…
Feed The People
By Mickey Friedman May 6, 2018 I learned about the pride of the poor from my parents who grew up with nothing. It was understood I would work as soon as I could legally find a job, to do my…
Ain’t Gonna
By Mickey Friedman April 26, 2018 I’ve been privileged to have been amongst those who believed. Who when they sang “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round” were marching and sitting for their lives. Who met teargas and billy clubs…
When Right Makes Wrong
April 6, 2018 By Mickey Friedman And so at the end of the day it’s been The Right not The Left that has smashed the myth of America to smithereens. A long time ago, in the midst of the War…
Teach The Eagles To Read
By Mickey Friedman March 25, 2018 In the real world of David versus Goliath, if you manage to find a stone for your slingshot, you’re likely to miss more times than you bring the big guy down. For more than…
Murder
By Mickey Friedman March 11, 2018 One moment and Ñacuñán was dead. He was in my life then gone. There is death and then there is murder. Murder is especially brutal – obviously for the victim but for those who…
Jobs
By Mickey Friedman February 22, 2018 All power to the eye of the beholder. Ye olde glass half full or half empty. President Trump declared in his State of the Union: “Less than one year has passed since I first…
Death
By Mickey Friedman February 8, 2018 Perhaps because my beginning was so profoundly touched by death – the grave illness and death of my younger brother Jonathan before I was three – and the deep grief of my parents, I…
Time’s Up
By Mickey Friedman January 27, 2018 I grew up in a world ruled by men. In such a world, however enlightened the exceptional men I met along the way, we were shaped/misshaped by the larger reality. I learned about sex…
The Right Thing
By Mickey Friedman January 12, 2018 We’re beginning to hear yet another version of The Blame The Victim Song that seems to comfort so many who have pledged to dismantle the few programs that still provide care and offer some…