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With an Ear to the Street …
By GORDON GLANTZ Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. You know the old saying. With the currently complicated mess between Israelis and the so-called Palestinians, it is hard to keep Hamas...
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The Abandoning of Gaza by its Brethren
By GORDON GLANTZ Do you find it odd the worldwide protestsagainst Israel, the target of the Oct. 7atrocities, were almost simultaneous withthe terrorist attack?It was almost as if it was...
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The Art of Knowing Something
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — Ready for some time travel? In the middle of the 19th century, there was a political party born out of xenophobia/anti-Catholic feelings of protestants who saw...
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The Stench of a Gale Force Wind
I’m not alone in being blocked! By GORDON GLANTZ There is a long-running joke in Montgomery County, Pa. The butt (pun intended) of this joke is County Commissioner Joe Gale. “Joe Gale, he has it...
View ArticleMemo From A Windmill
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — Forget the name you see above. I’m not Gordon Glantz. Call me Don Quixote. When it comes to the issue of gun control, that’s who I am. Driven to the point of heroic...
View ArticleHiding Among The White ‘Right’
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — Why do we have Black History Month? Going all the way back to sixth grade, when my teacher made it part of the curriculum in February (long before it was a “thing”), it...
View ArticleA (First) Name I’d Rather Forget
By GORDON GLANTZ What, exactly, do I do these days? Well, in addition to being Sofia’s chauffeur, I handle a wide array of freelance articles about subjects ranging from hearing loss to anesthesiology...
View ArticleStrange Days, Strange Dreams
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — Had a bizarre dream the night after last. I was face to face with an aged — and frighteningly lifelike — Charles Manson, who was seemingly representing himself as a...
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Factoring In The ‘Clint’ Factor
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — In the movie “Dazed And Confused,” there was a character named Clint who pronounced, at a party in the woods, that he was only there to drink some beer and kick some...
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Right Meets Wrong
By PHILIP HERON This isn’t about policy, or even partisan politics. This is about right and wrong, and it’s personal. Consider what we have endured for the past six months, our lives turned upside...
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No Getting Around The Facts
By GERI A. SAWICKI In America and around the world, we are more urban dwellers than rural, the highest percent ever: 85% of the world’s population lives in cities and megalopolises including suburbs...
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COVID-19: Red Meat in the Red Zone
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — If I had a job writing fortune cookies, I may say something like this: Confucius Says: When endeavoring to dig, dig deep. If you’d like an example, I’d be glad to...
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Back From The Front Lines
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE – Are we embroiled in a civil war? Not only is the answer to that question an affirmative, a full-throated “Hell, yeah,” but I have been on the front lines since the...
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Remembering John Lewis
By BEN BLOCK It’s hard to find the words to capture how this loss is processing in my mind, but here we go. They say “you should never meet your heroes” — work for them? Sheesh. The above photo was...
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In Search Of … The Truth
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE – I’ve been thinking a lot about that old documentary-style television show, hosted by Leonard “Mr. Spock” Nimoy, called “In Search Of.” Even at a young age, I was...
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Memos From My Spy Mission
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE – Moe Berg was a mediocre backup catcher in the big leagues for 15 seasons. Yeah, so what, you might ask? What makes him any different than any other bullpen receiver with...
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Political Food Poisoning
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE – Starved for some cerebral sustenance, I found a show on Hulu called “The Food That Built America” that wove American history with the stories of the innovators that...
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Gale Force Winds
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE — Another day, another call for Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Gale to either rescind this comments in the wake of the national protests over the George Floyd death...
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Flag on the Field
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE – I wouldn’t do that if you paid me a million dollars. Who among us hasn’t used that saying? Truth is, there is not much most of us wouldn’t do – short of something...
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This Is Us In The U.S.
By GORDON GLANTZ GORDONVILLE – Reggie Brown. That’s the guy’s name. No, I’m not talking about the former Eagles’ receiver who had a couple of decent seasons after the departure of Terrell Owens and...
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