New Orleans Norman Mailer, the famed novelist and journalist of the last century, was a king-sized narcissist. He once wrote a book, brashly and honestly, entitled Advertisements for Myself. Who knows how he thought that would work out? Trump must have crossed paths with him in the big city at some point or …
Blind Eyes on Campus
San Francisco Running from meeting to meeting, traveling from airport to airport, I was missing the headlines that might have scrolled past my screen, until calling home. Mi companera immediately asked if I was following the Cornell University story. Answering in the negative, I was sternly brought up to date. The condemnation of …
The Running of the Billionaire Bulls in California
San Francisco Money is flying faster than the accusations back and forth, but the billionaire tax is on the ballot this November in California and a reckoning is coming, one way or another. As many will recall, this is a one-time tax on California billionaires to fill the gap in state and federal …


