Francesco Rizzuto

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of a botched Coronavirus response and the wreckage of the November 2020 election, Jared Kushner will emerge the antihero...

Readers may recall my article entitled “Trump As Performance Artist” (www.francescorizzuto.com/post/trump-as-performance-artist). Well, as the Covid-19 death...

Readers of this blog know that I’m outspoken and brash. They also know that I sometimes put my mouth into gear before engaging my brain. So, Gentle Readers a...

The station chief is checking out his face in a cracked shaving mirror suspended from a nail in the peeling plaster wall of his hut, engaged in a futile atte...

The US government purchased millions of doses of hydroxochloroquine, falsely touted on President Donald J. Trump’s official Covid-19 briefings as a CV-19 pro...

What you’re seeing here is a mass grave. No, it’s not the Holocaust or Pol Pot's handiwork or even North Korea. It’s the USA in April 2020. It’s evidence of ...

As an old saying goes: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” That kind of jingoism was never more apropos than during the current Covid-19 pandem...

Donald J. Trump will be remembered for something more than the havoc he wreaked on the American people and the destruction of their democracy. He will go dow...

I’m sending a letter to Santa My letter I hope he’ll receive Oh, I wonder if he will please remember me When he calls on Christmas Eve He’ll get a lot of let...

I swore this was the day I’d give up drinking, LOL... But it just wasn’t meant to be. That’s because I stayed up late last night watching the impeachment tri...

Readers of this blog already know what a great fan I am of America’s First Lady (NOT!). I’m also unsupportive of the cheap shots, name-calling, shaming, back...

The writer of this piece is an author of mostly unpublished novels. That’s important. If you need to know why, then check out my cynical treatise on the tria...

In the run-up to the 2020 election, and in the midst of an impeachment campaign to unseat its President, it’s no secret that much of the civilized world is l...

I’m a child of the 1940’s and 50’s; the son of Italian immigrants. You know: Dagos and Wops and Guineas, those troublesome little brunettes from the Mediterr...

Americans think of corruption as something that happens elsewhere; you know, in places like Mexico (hence, The Wall), Venezuela, Putin’s Russia or…Giuliani’s...

WHY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY MAKES PACTS WITH DARKNESS It's difficult to avoid a sense of dread when scanning the morning news releases. The world is in ...

Here’s the premise: Donald Trump will win re-election hands-down in 2020. And here’s my justification for thinking what most thinking people think is unthink...

Having been a child abused by the Christian Brothers in the 1950’s and 60’s (see https://www.francescorizzuto.com/blog/what-s-wrong-with-pedophile-priests) I...

We don’t need Mat Dillon (Gunsmoke) or Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry) or even Batman to point out that this here town needs a good cleanup. Let’s start by gett...

"The French are glad to die for love They delight in fighting duels But I prefer a man who lives And gives expensive jewels A kiss on the hand may be quite c...