Here’s the recent Chris Wallace interview with both Romneys that everybody’s talking about (funny how many Wallaces are in posts today, isn’t it?) I find it difficult to look at for two reasons. The first is that it makes me … Continue reading →
Yesterday commenter “Lizzie” wrote: I remember watching the PBS “Ethics in America” episode where Charles Ogletree asked Peter Jennings & Mike Wallace what they would do if they were embedded with and the enemy, and they realized the enemy was … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP. And many thanks to those who’ve donated so far.] Yes, it’s hard to believe, isn’t it? Time passes so quickly when we’re enjoying ourselves. But yes, it’s been a while since I asked you to donate to a … Continue reading →
Back in the earlier half of the 20th century right through my childhood years and up to the Vietnam War and the cultural explosion we call the Sixties, the press (with some more liberal pockets) was predominantly—at least compared to … Continue reading →
New York’s Mayor Bloomberg on his favorite government topic, weight control: If you eat less than 2,000 calories you’ll lose weight,” the mayor said on his weekly WOR radio show today. “If you eat more than 2,000 calories, you’ll gain … Continue reading →
I first heard her sing when I was in college. I had some friends who’d been to Europe and had brought back a few of her records. I didn’t much care for her music and promptly forgot about her, until … Continue reading →
My mother’s very first memory was of being frightened by booming noises—guns? cannon? fireworks?—while being held aloft above a crowd to view a New York harbor filled with ships. She wept and her parents comforted her. The year was 1918, … Continue reading →
I’ve got a new article up at PJ on—what else?—political change, from left to right. We could use a little more of that.
Continue reading →The Woodward/WhiteHouse war of words continues with this Woodward claim: Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a “very senior person” at the White House warned him in an email that he would “regret doing this,” the same day … Continue reading →
In the Heidi Klum thread, commenter “JuliB” asks: Any comment on the uproar over Joan Rivers saying that the last time a German looked so hot, they were pushing Jews into the oven? Well, yes. When I read the Joan … Continue reading →
…back in the 1950s, according to food writer Ruth Clark, a specialist in the food of that era. Well, I must say that I don’t remember that, although I do recall that ketchup was considered to be an almost universal … Continue reading →
…was smashing:
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