…for all these long years, that his obituary would feature the fact that he was the designer of the Edsel. My guess is that, at 96, he’d made his peace with that: Roy Brown Jr., a car designer for Ford … 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 →
Bob Woodward seems to have had a recent epiphany about Obama. First there was this. And now this: The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward ripped into President Barack Obama on “Morning Joe” today, saying he’s exhibiting a “kind of madness I … Continue reading →
He seems to get it: Cruz’s career follows an upbringing filled with political discussion around the family table. He even memorized the U.S. Constitution as a teen in high school. “I gave probably 80 speeches all over the state on … Continue reading →
I know the term “MSM” hadn’t been invented yet. But Mark Twain knew what he was talking about: If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. Caught between Scylla and Charybdis.
Continue reading →Mystery solved. That’s a relief.
Continue reading →Julian Schnabel, 61, definitely must have something pretty special. He’s an artist and filmmaker, and both endeavors have been so successful that they’ve also led to extraordinary wealth. Beautiful women are drawn to him like flies to honey (or perhaps, … Continue reading →
…and former NY Mayor Ed Koch is dead of heart failure at 88. He was mayor from ’78 to ’89. The adjectives that quickly come to my mind—and probably to everybody’s mind—when thinking of him are colorful, flamboyant, outspoken. He … Continue reading →
I was introduced to Gregory Corso’s poem “Marriage” by a boyfriend long ago, and it stuck in my mind because it was one of the few poems I’ve ever read that is genuinely funny; more a comedy monologue than a … Continue reading →
…Michele Bachmann? Bachmann, like Palin, has been relentlessly attacked and has become somewhat of a laughingstock. She does have a certain tendency to go off in ways that seem overblown and even absurd, but that doesn’t mean she’s stupid, and … Continue reading →
Though you might say, “well, why are you writing a post about it, then?” I never followed Armstrong’s career, although I certainly knew who he was and about the controversy that whirled around him; how could you follow the news … Continue reading →
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity … Continue reading →