The Writer's Life 3/23 - Topsy Turvy

The news that retired Army Colonel Ralph Peters has left his post as a commentator at Fox News is worrisome. I've read his op-ed pieces for years and he has always seemed a paragon of common sense. He has accused the network of becoming a propaganda tool against Special Counsel Robert Mueller. What does he see that I don't? Am I so blindly partisan? Even Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School - and liberal icon - Alan Dershowitz thinks the investigation is a crock. In an article at thehill.com, he says: "President Trump is right in saying that a special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection. There was no evidence of any crime committed by the Trump administration..." What a topsy turvy world. Which way is up?

According to a blurb in today's NY Post, Steven Soderbergh, who has directed many successful films (Sex, Lies, and Videotape {1989}, Out of Sight {1998}, the Ocean's Eleven series), shot his just released Unsane with a IPhone 7 Plus. Two other directors have also used IPhones on films, partially and in full. Although I don't use one, or any smart phone, I marvel at what a great product it is. There is evidence of it every day on Facebook and Twitter.

Also from the Post: When President Trump was elected, NYC officials predicted a drop in tourism. Visitors to the Big Apple rose by 400,000 in 2017.

In a surprising move, the football Giants have traded DE Jason Pierre-Paul and a fourth round draft pick to Tampa Bay for third and fourth round picks in this year's draft. Only 29, JPP is not the player he was in his first few seasons with Big Blue, when his play was frequently astonishing. He was at first slowed by injuries, then by the fireworks accident that took some of his fingers. Writers are speculating the Giants will now select a DE with the number two pick. I think they're crazy if they don't take Penn St. RB Saquon Barkley, who seems the closest to sure thing of all the prospects.

I was back at my regular nook today, and it paid off, although I had to make sure the display was situated so that it wouldn't get doused by the snow melting and seeping through the scaffold. My thanks to the young woman who works in a local law office, who purchased Dry: A Memoir by recovered alcoholic Augusten Burroughs, a treatise on feminism and another book; and to the middle age woman who bought Nothing to Lose by Lee Child, #12 of 21 in the Jack Reacher series; and to the other who selected Doctor, Why Am I So Tired? by Richard N. Podell M.D., and two paperback romances; and to the two ladies who bought a book each in Russian. The men opted for music: Wolf, in from Florida, went for the BeeGees Live CD, and Marty, NYPD retired, a Duran Duran compilation.
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