• Month: July 2017

    At last, a movie actually worth seeing at the theater — “Dunkirk”

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    At last, a movie actually worth seeing at the theater — “Dunkirk”

    As I explain in my column in today’s Ledger-Enquirer,  it’s very hard for me to find a movie worth two hours of my time or any amount of my money. So, what the critics say matters to me. I usually concur. That most certainly is the case with the World War II flick “Dunkirk,” which has garnered rave reviews. It’s intense but not gory or gratuitous. Some folks who have been through conflict might find it a little too real, especially on the big screen with booming sound. Then again, as I mention in the column, my grandfather loved war […]

    John McCain, Bill Bradley and what could have been in 2000

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    John McCain, Bill Bradley and what could have been in 2000

    With all of the hullabaloo accompanying the craziness of the Bush v. Gore general election of 2000, people often forget about the two runners-up in the primary season — Sen. John McCain on the Republican side and Sen. Bill Bradley with the Democrats. I longed for these two distinguished, principled men to face off in an election that they vowed— in a written, signed compact, mind you — that would be about the actual issues without special interests dictating the discussions. I truly believe that those two men could have mostly lived up to their promise of a principled general […]