We are always trying to read significance into birthdays, but there has to be something to it.
It was always extremely cool to me that I shared a birthday with uber-crooner Francis A. “Frank” Sinatra. I used to read my horoscope and then announce to anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby that whatever was happening to me that day was also happening to Old Blue Eyes.
It stopped being funny when Sinatra was dying.
Still, can it really be just a coincidence that Stephen K. Bannon was born Nov. 27, the same day Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade at Clermont, France, in 1095? Not a chance.
When I spoke to my buddy A.J. Rice about his new book “The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine People…on Both Sides,” he couldn’t wait to tell me how his birthday, Jan. 12, linked him to the two men who understood modern American media better than else: Rush…
