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…
Category: Wealth in America
Deplorable
By Mickey Friedman December 1, 2016 Those who weren’t listening are forced to hear; those who wouldn’t see to see. And surprise, surprise they are not happy. Blame the FBI. Or those racist, sexist, gay-bashing everybody-elses who are now everywhere.…
Ongoing insult to longstanding injury
By Bill Shein October 6, 2016 Way back in March, 2006, I wrote a newspaper column commenting on the turnover in storefronts in downtown Great Barrington. As old, longtime stores closed up, many of the new ones, I wrote, could…
Standing Rock
By Mickey Friedman September 23, 2016 I’ve stopped posting about Hillary on Facebook because my liberal friends just don’t want to know about the Dark Side of the candidate they so desperately need to be an ethical alternative to The…
A Reason To Believe
By Mickey Friedman May 12, 2016 We are once again in the midst of a war between the generations. If you missed the end of the stultifying fifties and the metaphorical and real explosions of the sixties, open your eyes.…
Hillary, Billary and Chillary
By Mickey Friedman April 28, 2016 Hillary, Billary, & Chillary. With offices in Little Rock, Chappaqua, and Panama City. And for you tweeters: hashtag ExperienceMatters. I know you Bernouts are resentful. But “corrupt” is just your mean-spirited way of re-defining…
Embrace the Geese
March 8, 2016 By Mickey Friedman Before the geese, Great Barrington didn’t need public relations. When I got here in seventy-two, there were fewer antiques and more junk. Joneses, a treasure trove of used everything. Bars not bistros. Railroad Street…
Money, Honey: The Sixty-Two
By Mickey Friedman March 23, 2016 Have you ever heard or read something that blew your mind? Short-circuited it. Even though I’ve been writing about money recently, the other day I read something that just plain astounded me. Oxfam reports…
Money Honey Two
By Mickey Friedman February 13, 2016 When it comes to money, honey, two is better than one. Clyde McPhatter sang “before I say I love you so I want: Money, honey … Money, honey, if you want to get along…
Money Honey
January 28, 2016 By Mickey Friedman Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters sang: “Well, I’ve learned my lesson and now I know/ The sun may shine and the winds may blow/ The women may come and the women may go/ But…
Yes, I Was Hillary Clinton’s Live-In IT Guy
By Bill Shein October 16, 2015 As Hillary Clinton heads toward an appearance before The Permanent Joint Congressional Select Committee on Investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton Until Long After They’re Dead to discuss her private e-mail server, it’s time for…
Mars for the Martians
By Mickey Friedman December 23, 2014 Some of us have decided to get the heck out of Dodge. And, as usual, the desire to flee is being sold as noble. So there’s talk of Mars. Elon Musk, who I’ve never…