Brief Takes

The David Letterman show sent a video crew to the Comic-Con International in San Diego to shoot a segment.  It's tentatively scheduled to run on Late Show this coming Monday, July 30.

A few months ago, I recommended a visit to Gary Grossman's website and the purchase of his terrific book on the George Reeves Superman TV show called Superman: From Serial to Cereal.  If you don't have a copy, you should and — lucky you — he's having a sale on them.  Go over to www.supermanbook.com and order a copy before he wises up and cancels the sale.

Michael Kinsley offers up a pretty simple explanation of why the privatization of Social Security cannot possibly work.  Here's that link.  And here's a nice little piece by Roger Simon about the seventies.