SHADOW OF A DOUBT

George McGovern died last week while I was either in the midst of writing a recent post on politics, or responding to comments on it. It...

If you look underneath the title,  Shadow of a Doubt, on top , you'll see a none-too-brief description of what this blog's all a...

John Lennon was born on this day in 1940. He gave many, many interviews over the years, but here's one in 1974 by a man you normally d...

Andy Williams died--lemme check--two days ago. I can't say I paid much attention to him over the  years. I'm in no way prejudiced ...

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent --Franklin P. Adams Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else --Heywood Braun A...

    Lyricist. Best known for his collaborations with Burt Bacharach. Magic Moments. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me. A...

I just now--really, about 15 minutes ago, which would have been 1:43 PM EST--found out that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the m...