The Night the Travesty Came to Town, Tra-la-loopy-la

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

Witlessly, four foggy-minded middle-aged women, looking desolate, as if they had been abruptly abandoned on a mental desert island, converted what was intended to be a serious Cultural Affairs Commission meeting last night into a dog-and-pony show — with apologies to our friends with four legs.

All Who Want to Blame Israel Line up Over There

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

With Rosh Hashanah starting tomorrow night, continuing through Thursday and into Friday when the Shabbat begins, the air in our home for the next four evenings will be thick with debate over the latest ritualistic, and pragmatically useless, round of Middle East “peace” talks.

Myrtle, Please Hand Me Another Plastic Bag

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

What a wonderful fairy tale world the ephemeral President Nebulous J. Ambivalent has drawn for us in the last 22 months, he being the first chief executive in American history to take office the day after the election.