Russell Frank
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What’s So Funny? Ask My Students in 16 Weeks
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Next week I’ll begin teaching a course I’m calling Humor in Journalism. (Don’t tell my students that I plan to distribute Groucho glasses on the first day of class to […]
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Like It or Not, This Is What Democracy Looks Like
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A couple of cops were among the 150 or so folks in the standing-room-only crowd that turned out for Wednesday night’s State College Borough Council meeting. They weren’t needed. The […]
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Tonight at 6: State College Takes Another Crack at a Ceasefire Resolution
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Russell Frank offers two columns this week. For a lighter read, click here. A resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is back on the table for State College Borough […]
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Can I Borrow a Cup of Vodka? (It’s Not for Me, It’s for My Tineola Bisselliella)
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Russell Frank offers two columns this week. For a more serious read, click here. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, I asked Mary across the street if she could spare some […]
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No Ceasefire Resolution, but a Heartening Exercise in Civics and Civility
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My snap response to the Gaza ceasefire resolution considered by State College Borough Council on Monday night was an eyeroll. After the requisite litany of “whereas-es,” council would, if the […]
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Of Gratitude and Inquietude
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I’m across the bay from San Francisco this week, visiting the newest member of the crew and the first grandson, Marcus James, born last month, thriving and calm. Marcus is […]
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Summoning the Ghosts of Elections Past
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The obvious solution to Joe Biden’s over-the-hill problem: We rewind to 2008 and pull a switcheroo. Make Uncle Joe the presidential nominee and Obama the running mate. That way, we […]
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We All Grieve
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Concerned friends want to know how I’m doing. Not because I’ve had a health crisis or a family crisis. Because I’m Jewish. I appreciate their asking. They’re right to think […]
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Want to Live Longer, Pennsylvanians? Start Packing
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“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) I’ve long thought it would be handy if, […]
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I Can’t Hear You, I’ve Got a Candle in My Ear
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Sometimes we columnists put ourselves in harm’s way so that you, our readers, won’t have to. That is why I spent part of my Sunday afternoon with a lit candle […]