Wow! Can you believe that Claudia Schiffer, who first burst on the scene as a model in 1989, still can sell the goods? At the mindbogglingly ancient age of—41? I hate to break it to Shine and all the others … Continue reading →
My new article, “Branding Retro Romney,” is up at PJ. It’s about the perils of casting Mitt Romney in the “Mad Men” role, as the Obama administration has been wont to do. You can comment there or here, or better … Continue reading →
…the least bit surprised at this? Certainly not the young lady’s mother, who gets the grim satisfaction of being able to say “I told you so.”
Continue reading →And now it seems quite possible that Mirlande Wilson was not even a lottery winner, much less the lottery winner: The New York Post reported that a Maryland McDonald’s employee, Mirlande Wilson, 37, is claiming to be the winner and … Continue reading →
…a feel-good story. Except, perhaps, for Mirlande Wilson herself. And even then, she’s got some splainin to do.
Continue reading →In 2008 I wrote a post entitled “Wanting a cool and sexy Prez,” in which I evaluated Obama and previous presidents on the dimension of cool: Maybe it’s come down to this: choosing a President is now mostly about style … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but I was in the mood for a laugh. And I got one—or even more than one:
Continue reading →or fake? This is why it’s probably fake. More about the controversy here. And here’s a history of humankind’s attempts to build an ornithopter, which is what this purported invention would be called: a man-powered flying machine that is not … Continue reading →
Today my internet connection went down. I tried all the usual things: asking Comcast to refresh the signal, disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, calling and speaking to customer service. It was the latter that really got my goat. First the … Continue reading →
Here’s a nice story about Louise White of Rhode Island, an 81-year-old lady who just won a 336 million Powerball jackpot. Not surprisingly at her age, Ms. White chose to receive the money in a lump sum of $210,000,000 rather … Continue reading →
Rush Limbaugh apologized again to Sandra Fluke yesterday, and this time he sounded sincere, although he managed to get in a well-deserved (see this, for example) dig at the left in the process: “I descended to [the left’s] level when … Continue reading →
Movie popcorn, candy, and soft drinks have gotten ridiculously expensive. The theaters consider their patrons to comprise a captive audience slave to its munchie cravings, much like the passengers in an airport waiting for a plane are forced to pay … Continue reading →