Frank M. Di Tore
Articles by Frank M. Di Tore
October 19, 2008
It´s great to hear that Christopher Hitchens, although he still behaves like an apologetic neocon, is voting for Obama and finds Sarah Palin a disgrace. He too, insulted by McCain´s endorsement of Palin and her "stirring up of the whack-job fringe of the party's right wing," was forced...
June 16, 2008
This city is famous for its bad restaurants and snobbish attitudes, but sometimes there´s a hidden place where the crowds disappear and the food is pure Veneto.
Venice, Italy – A waiter with dark, slick-backed hair carries a tray of young roasted potatoes and vegetables mixed with sprigs o...
April 15, 2008
The Church can't have it all: a full bottle, a drunken wife, and also the grape on the vine.
-- Daniele Capezzone
In the course of Pope Benedict´s U.S. visit, he will be using the latest technology and a highly armed and costly security service to shuttle him around the country while pla...
March 21, 2008
With all the rumors floating around on web sites out there you´d think there was an international collusion by governments in Europe and the United States dispersing polymer mixtures into clouds to modify weather conditions for military communications purposes, secret projects for deflecting ...
February 21, 2008
"I spent the whole day and evening wandering all over Central Park," I said to my wife upon my return from the New York City. "By yourself, in the evening?" she said. "Sure, I´m at greater risk going through security at Dulles," I said, " luckily, I wasn´t mistaken for a terrorist or ...
February 19, 2008
Ron Paul was recently astute enough to suggest he is a lousy politician. This is not a self-deprecation when you consider the braggadocian candidates out there currently running for the nomination. You can count outsiders like Paul on one hand who are blunt and not beholden to special intere...
January 30, 2008
The immigrants keep coming. They come from Africa, from former Communist block countries, or from overcrowded intolerant cultures that will not tolerate equality between men and women or Western ideals, and so they arrive on boats, trains, buses and planes into Italy, Germany, France, The Netherland...
January 11, 2008
The Netherlands - Most people know about the Nazi death-camps which long ago reached a cult status through the Hollywood film but not many know what really happened to another five million people who, from various countries, were unwillingly transported to work in Germany between 1939 and 1945. A...
January 08, 2008
We’re probably the most fortunate generation that ever lived in this chaotic universe but depending on how you look at it, the news still isn’t good. There is some evidence an increase in chaos will proceed on at least two fronts.
VENICE, ITALY It is a wet and stormy evening as the train pulls ...