Francesco Rizzuto

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The writer of this piece is an author of mostly unpublished novels.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...

Let’s be honest. Any woman who goes into a Bergdorf Goodman women’s change room with a man who isn’t her lover or husband – and especially THAT man – isn’t t...

I was a child growing up in the 1940’s. You know, the decade when the world lost its moral compass and everybody’s dad or uncle or grandfather was fighting o...

Candida isolated herself at a corner table of the diner downstairs from Ginger’s room on 167th Street. She sipped at a cup of sweet black tea while perusing ...

Washington, 2019 New York, 1939 Manufredi advised his friend Jacob that life in America was not always what it seemed. The ordering of things was different h...

The United States of America is the only nation on earth whose borders have nothing to do with its landmass. To go, say, from Montreal to New York, a travele...

At one point in my overly long life, I seriously contemplated becoming a Roman Catholic priest. That’s right, the guys who are giving dirty old men a bad nam...

I’ll state my thesis upfront. That way, all the MAGA wingnuts, religious fanatics, and gun-toting racists can book off. I don’t want to waste their precious ...