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‘Some of these days, Oh, you’ll miss me honey… your big fat mamma!’ ‘Dr.’ Leslie Berlowitz’ nonexistent doctorate roils one of the nation’s most respected institutions and the ‘little people’ get their revenge.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. Remember Leona Helmsley (1920-2007), widely known as “the Queen of Mean”? She had the great good fortune to marry one of the Great Republic’s richest men, hotelier Harry Helmsley… which she thought conferred on her God’s permission to belittle, disdain, demean, denigrate all the “little people” of her …

‘The Stars and Stripes Forever.’ Memorial Day in the Great Republic. Monday, May 27, 2013.

  Author’s program note. It is 5:35 a.m. here in Cambridge and the day threatens to be gray, overcast and wet (at least so far), not up to the radiant holiday standard we’re used to on a plu-perfect springtime day. But the scene outside my window is evocative and even solemn, the light filtered, the …

‘I’m too sexy for my shirt…’ Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael S. Jeffries tells the naked truth about his corporate vision. Now every imperfect person on Earth hates him.

Author’s program note. I was sitting in the barber shop the other day  when I saw two beautiful television anchors discussing the little faux pas made by Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael S. Jeffries an acknowledged  powerhouse in the business of making people, but only certain people, the cynosure  of every eye. It is a …

‘Ma, I’m hurt real bad.’ Boston. April 15, 2013.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. To experience the joy of spring in New England and in its first and principal city since its inception in 1630 you must have faced and survived the very real rigors of the New England winter as only the genuine New Englander can do… resolute people… determined people… …

U.S. Presidential Libraries. Time for radical rethinking as “Hail to the Chief” gets way out of hand.

by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. I admit it. I am a presidential buff. I have been for all of my 66 years. I like reading about them, can’t get enough of their early lives, campaigns, policies and peccadilloes, and the tragedies and obsequies which I regard with the same high seriousness and reverence …

‘Pardon the witches of Connecticut’, say relatives. ‘Cause there’s no nicer witch than you.’ Some thoughts.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. It all happened a long time ago, in 1663 in fact, but some of the good citizens of Connecticut just cannot let it go. And it’s easy to understand why. After all, it was their ancestors who were burnt, hanged and otherwise mistreated because their anxious neighbors deemed …

‘Civus Americanus sum.’ On what must be done to protect Americans abroad in the age of world revolution, terror, and outrage. Some thoughts.

by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Are you a citizen of the United States? Do you wish to travel, live, or work outside the geographical boundaries of the nation? Do you expect to do so in confidence that, at the conclusion of your sojourn, you will return in one piece, safe and sound, not …

‘Why? Because we like you!’ On Mickey Mouse, his Club, and an appreciation for the life and mile-long smile of former head Mouseketeer Ginny Tyler dead at 86, July 13, 2012.

September 12, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Current Events, Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Surely there is an error someplace, something God Himself forgot to mention, namely that Mouseketeers, kids we knew better than our neighbors, were not supposed to get old, face the cares and crises of the rest of us, and, this cannot be happening, even die. How could this …

Dr. Jeffrey Lant talks about why the nude photos of the prince are not the worst thing to happen to a Royal Family Member.

August 23, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Current Events

(NECN) – Recent pictures of Prince Harry disrobed in Las Vegas with an unidentified woman have surfaced, and has many talking. Jeffrey Lant , an expert on British royalty, joins Broadside   to discuss the impact this picture could have, and why people care so much about the Royal Family. Lant says being naked is just …

The resignation of Congressman Anthony Weiner, June 16, 2011. Throwing away “the dearest thing he owned as ’twere a careless trifle.”

By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about delivering the right conclusions to move audiences, would, no doubt about it, have been underwhelmed by every aspect of U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner’s resignation yesterday. News junkies like me were informed that, at 2 p.m. Eastern time, the man who was the butt …