Harry´s Blog

According to “Profil(e)”Austria is in the lead.
You’re Number One on the European Tally of Smokers.
Austria, you may be runner-up to Hungary on Suicide,
but you’re two up on Hungary in Smoking.
Harry Congratulates the Champion!
from The Grey Haze/Der blaue Dunst
There are thousands, millions, billions of chimneys
polluting the atmosphere of the world
that are producing nothing but inane expressions […]

Herbert Kuhner
American “Conservative” Columnist and Tea Party Activist
Laura Ingraham Recites a “Poem” She Authored:
“First They Came”
“I am proud to stand with you,
and I am saying with great respect
First they came for the rich,
And I did not speak out because I was not rich.
Then they confiscated the property owners,
and I did not speak out because […]

I started at the top and worked my way down.
- Orson Welles
Orson Welles often pulled the chestnuts out of the fire,
but he threw them in just as often.
I saw Citizen Kane in 1955 at the 55th St Playhouse, which is off Seventh Ave. At the time it was still an “art house.” Years later it […]

India vs. Pakistan
India and Pakistan are different as night and day.
Why? Simply because of religious differences.
Religion is invariably the dividing factor.
What do India and Pakistan have in common,
other than languages, culture, and cuisine?
They are both being terrorized by suicidal fanatics
located in Pakistan.
What is the solution for two […]

Lunch Table Retrospective
Before attending the Lunch Bunch Round Table in Vienna on Fridays, I thought that the American way was consensus. While attending, I started to use internet. Upon seeing how Town Hall and the National Review online ridicule those who do not share their political views, I had my doubts. After having experienced […]

No doubt about it, Christopher Hitchins and Roger Cohen have a command of the language. But…
No fool can be as much of a fool
as the wise man off keel
“On the last day of his presidency, I want to say why I still do not wish that Al Gore […]

Here’s part of an encomium for the late William Safire by Maureen Dowd:
“I pestered him for years for an invite. He patiently explained it was just for Jews or people who were, or had been, married to Jews. After years of pleading, including many protestations that I had had […]