By Mickey Friedman November 23, 2019 The words pour down from the heavens. Thanks and more thanks. A grateful nation. Perhaps a Presidential Proclamation. But please swat the words aside. Instead, take a cold hard look at what politicians do,…
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Mel Multiplied
Mickey Friedman November 7, 2019 I do Thursday. One of a team picking up donated food from Fuel, Big Y, Guido’s, and Great Barrington Bagel for People’s Pantry weekly food distribution. Early on it was Mel Greenberg, sometimes Phyllis Weiss,…
On Corruption
Mickey Friedman October 25, 2019 Thanks to Foxy Friends I have a handle on this corruption stuff. Though the socialists talk about the Trumps making money while they govern us, my friends at Foxy know it’s all about the Bidens.…
Bird By Bird
October 11, 2019 By Mickey Friedman One bird, two birds, three birds, four. Five birds, six birds, seven birds, more. More birds than I can count. I can’t imagine three billion birds. I’ve had a canary, a parakeet, and for…
Do Unto
Mickey Friedman September 30, 2019 My head hurts. My heart aches. I am the son of an Italian Catholic mother, raised in part by nuns, and a Hungarian Jewish father, whose father wanted him to be a Cantor. The Depression…
Light The Way
Mickey Friedman September 12, 2019 Gillian, hit by a car, died in the crosswalk in Sheffield. Cathy was seriously injured when she was hit by a car in the crosswalk in Great Barrington. Friends. Most recently a young skateboarder luckily…
Little Penguins
September 2, 2019 Mickey Friedman Current Events. The only time in school we actually talked about what was happening in our world. These days I can’t bear the bad news descending upon us like the worst of Berkshire fogs. Enveloping…
#BestCare4All
August 17, 2019 Mickey Friedman The Democratic debates left me depressed, despairing, and despondent. And the continuing decline of the Red Sox didn’t help. The Dems somehow managed to mangle health care reform. Unable to tell Americans why it works.…
When Lies Turn Lethal
Mickey Friedman August 5, 2019 You can spend your days and nights responding to lies. Rep. Ilhan Omar expresses concern about Republican attempts to end a refugee resettlement program: “the only leverage you have is that you are part of…
Mel
Mickey Friedman July 19, 2019 The last few years it was touch and go. And I wondered which would come first, whether Mel Greenberg would succumb to cancer or Mel and I would die while he was driving us to…
Camps of Cruelty
July 4, 2019 By Mickey Friedman Had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used words other than “concentration camps” to describe immigrant detention centers would the hypocritical Republicans have stopped dead in their tracks and said: “Oh my God! Children in cages is a…
Sorry, England. Sorry, France.
By Mickey Friedman June 24, 2019 My invitation to see the Queen must have gotten lost in the mail. Believe me, I’ve been checking. Somehow it made it to the White House. Capitol One sends me an invitation every few…