We have an election in California next Tuesday. A small portion of the electorate, I'm guessing, will trudge to their polling places and punch chads on eight propositions. Earlier this evening, I spent some time with my sample ballot and read some online articles, and I decided to vote for Propositions 79 and 80 and […]
If you have anything important to do for the next half-hour, do not go to this site and start playing the game you'll find there. You have been warned. […]
William F. Buckley on the real issue in the Valerie Plame/CIA mess. (Well, one of the real issues.) […]
You may have heard about the New Yorker article by Jeffrey Goldberg in which Brent Scowcroft explains why he thinks the Iraq War is a huge mistake. That article is now available for your online perusal. […]
I can't believe I just learned about Walt Grogan's terrific Marvel Family website devoted to the Fawcett Captain Marvel and friends. Walt's a bit more interested in the later versions of those characters than I am but it's a wonderful resource with fine graphics. There was a wonderful simplicity to the material published by Fawcett […]
From an editorial in tomorrow morning's New York Times… Americans are long overdue for an answer to why they were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Well, maybe one reason was that they read The New York Times. […]
I've received and am enjoying My Son, the Box, which is the 6-disc collection of darn near everything Allan Sherman ever recorded in his short but wonderful career singing song parodies. I hope in the next week or so to compile and post a list here of everything that isn't in this collection. It's not […]
It won't be there much longer but the BBC Radio website is currently offering a half-hour audio documentary on the Sgt. Bilko TV show. To find it, go to this link and look down to where it says You'll Never Get Rich: The Bilko Story. That's where you want to click. The broadcast makes the […]
As I mentioned eons ago in this post, I used to enjoy a substance called Adams Sour Orange Gum. It was pretty much the only gum I ever liked and when they stopped making it, I stopped chewing gum forever. I note that while it is still not possible to buy a fresh piece of […]
I screwed up the link a few posts back to the Lewis Black piece on candy corn. It is now fixed. It points to this clip. Thanks to all eight thousand of you who wrote to tell me. […]
For some time now, the west coast and east coast divisions of the Writers Guild of America have been engaged in a spat that got waaaay nastier in public than it should have. I explained it to the best of my questionable ability in this post. I'm delighted to say that it's over. As announced […]
Several of you are writing me to tell me you eat and like candy corn. You lie. Compared to you people, Scooter Libby is George "Cherry Tree" Washington. Everyone hates candy corn, even comedian Lewis Black. Here's a link [Real Player required] to his view of this noxious product that aspires to be both corn […]
My views of Halloween have not changed from two years ago. And the people who've written to me since then to say they like candy corn are all still liars. […]
Once more, I link to the free version of a Frank Rich column that some of us subscribed to the New York Times "select" service in order to be able to read. […]
The new production of The Odd Couple, with Nathan Lane as the slob and Matthew Broderick as the neat freak, opened last Thursday evening on Broadway. Just for the sheer "event" of it all, I would have liked to be there for the opening, especially at the end when Mr. Lane interrupted the curtain ovation […]