I've faced prejudices that come with what a friend described as my "country club face."
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Out Of Dolce
"I need 10 stamps," I say. "You can have two," she says. "But I need 10. Why can't I buy 10?"
Piazza
The global piazza harvests and broadcasts gossip without regard to consequences.
Oriana
In death, journalist Oriana Fallaci is considered a major figure. In life, her views were far more minor.
1 Joe’s Law
What do fear and loathing have in common? Cynicism, says the pope.
9/11/06
American history was hungry for a fresh meal, for an updated vernacular of rage that a ruling class feeds on.
Happy New Year
There is a classless democracy to Italian vacations that America should envy.
The Culture Wars
BOOM! No, there was no bomb. But I was furious. Had there been one, it would have been dead cop, dead me.
Oh, And I Met The Pope
I put out milk and cookies for the pope, he was a little insistent...
Lions
I live above the Rome zoo, which, in summer, makes good on animal foreignness.
War
“Got you, gorilla!” he‘d shout, or, more boldly, “Shalom!”
Noodles
He anticipated post-modernism, the implications of AIDS, and aspects of the consequences of Jihad.