My letter to the Boston Globe's news editor, Kaitlin Johnston, 6.6.24

Dear Ms. Johnston:

I don't visit boston.com very often, but turned to the site today to look for a crucial piece of history. Today, the President and First Lady are in Normandy honoring the remaining veterans of D-Day, June 6, 1944, on the eightieth anniversary of the invasion that eventually drove Hitler's forces out of France, then Europe, and saved the free world.

Mention of this landmark observance is conspicuous by its absence on the landing page of boston.com today. Instead, we see lobster roll prices, basketball player Kyrie Irving, impounded mopeds, and (granted, legitimately) a murder trial.

Our freedom wasn't free.

Got my new hot cup o' joe!

With Apologies to Cheap Trick

To the tune of "Surrender":

Fani told me, yes she told me
I’d meet crooks like you.
She also told me, watch the news,
You never know who I’ll catch.


Just the other day I heard
Of attempts to evade the court.
Indictments for conspirators
Will make their dodging short.


Rudy’s all right, Sidney’s all right,
They just seem a little screwed.
Surrender, surrender,
Oh, please give yourself away.


Jack Smith says that Fani’s right,
She’s really up on things.
RICO law is on her side
Let’s see what the trial brings.


Now I had heard that Trump recuited
Losers for his war.
But Fani isn’t one of those,
She’ll put him away for years.


Eastman’s all right, Powell’s all right,
They just seem a little screwed.
Surrender, surrender,
Oh, please give yourself away.


Whatever happened to all this season's
Losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking
Where'd they disappear?

Then I woke up, Don and crew
Had war plans on the couch,
Boasting how it was all hush-hush,
Got classified records out.

Donny’s not bright, no he’s not bright,
Now he is completely screwed.
Surrender, surrender,
Oh, please give yourself away.


Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay . . .

R.I.P. the great Al Jaffee of MAD magazine

Al Jaffee made it to the ripe old age of 102, and zillions of kids might not have made it through childhood and teenhood without Al's "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" and "Ridiculous" (his word) back cover fold-ins. Thanks for the great memories, Al! Here's is obit on NBC:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/al-jaffee-award-winning-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dies-102-rcna79069