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A poorly-conceived and narrowly-shared lie is bad; a carefully-conceived and widely-shared lie is worse. Politicians, provocateurs, and other purveyors of the sometimes untrue thrive in spaces where there is no evidence and no immediate...
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. …he was just a guy with nothing to say but that did not stop him from talking incessantly… …I think this is a really...
Loving Heart Too Soon Departed Everywhere He Went He Farted Tony Schiavone was a friend of mine. Some called him an iconophile because he was agreeable, generally good-natured in debate or simple conversation, and...
Tony and I went to college on Staten Island. We were country kids surrounded by city kids with family names like Spaccarelli, Maccarelli, and Vermicelli and nicknames like “Pee Soup,” “Little Richie,” and “Verm.”...
One of Tony’s greatest regrets was not learning Italian when he was young, and he often thought about it. On his 75th birthday, he just started speaking it fluently. He could not explain it...
There was a time when people didn’t have to worry about over-analysis and scrutiny from social media police. You could tell a story and without risk or worry about contempt or condemnation. You could...
Always the optimist, Tony was a master at promising to do what couldn’t be done. And while not always what he hoped, he came to accept the yin and yang of it’s just a...
On his 80th birthday, Tony married a much younger woman. A couple of weeks before the event, he went to his doctor for a prenup checkup and prescription. Doctor: “Congratulations, Tony. You are in...
It’s the new-new. The Internet and social media have made it possible to make a living lying and selling crap when the only qualifications for doing it seem to be having been around so...
The literary world has reached a new level of shallowness. Today, the only necessary people in publishing are the writer and reader and time, space, and lies are all that stands between them. As...
