Harry´s Blog

Herbert Kuhner
Election time is coming in November.
We better vote and then pray!
Here are two jokes by the Republican candidate:
“Question: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Answer: Because her father is Janet Reno!”
Told by McCain at a Washington dinner in 1998.
- Sherman Yellen, Huffington Post, Nov. 18, 2006

“Did you hear the one about the woman
who is […]

Herbert Kuhner
Concerning Sarah Palin and Choice:
“We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby.”
That’s fine, but Palin wants to remove “choice” as an option
and John McCain has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices
who would overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Not all conservatives are on the anti-abortion tack.
CC Goldwater tells about her granddad:
“My grandfather (Barry) would never […]

(Let’s listen to Joe the Plumber!)
No fool can be as much a fool
as the wise man off keel.
Granting that adage, we unfortunately cannot cast all wisdom aside. What we need is wisdom without wise men.
In the US there are sentiments against “eggheads” Anti-intellectualism is on the move in seven-league boots, which is nothing new.
The simple […]

Celia Mitchell died on September 13, 2008. She was Alter Brody’s second wife.
My wife Irmgard and I had the pleasure of seeing Celia on trips to New York. We both loved her and we feel that our lives have been enriched by having known and corresponded with her. She was such a good, kind and […]

Breaking Down Borders
A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Burgenland Croatian Poetry
Croatian and English
Edited and Translated by
Peter Tyran and Herbert Kuhner
Breaking Down Borders/Zrusmo granice
is the new edition of
Hawks and Nightingales/Ptici i slauji,
We are in arrears.
The book is ready for publication - save for the final touches.
We’ll be finished when the final touches have been applied.
They have to […]