A couple of thoughts on the Scooter Libby indictment. One is that with his statement Friday and the release of the paperwork, the prosecutor rendered millions of bytes of Internet discussion inoperative and inaccurate. I don't know if people have gone back and scrubbed their weblogs but an awful lot of armchair legal analysis has […]
Ah, yes. Something else on which you can spend your hard-earned dinero instead of buying medicine for your ailing mother. The folks at Dark Horse Comics are coming out with another line of cute li'l figurines of classic characters and just to make the others look more important, they're including Groo the Wanderer in the […]
I don't know how many of you recall the McMartin Pre-School Scandal. Briefly: In 1984, it was charged that hundreds of children were molested at a pre-school in Manhattan Beach. The school's owners and employees were arrested, tried repeatedly and eventually released…by which time their lives were pretty well destroyed. Parents were outraged that no […]
Garry Trudeau has a good track record for predicting what's going to happen in the world and incorporating it into his Doonesbury strip. Every so often though, his Magic 8-Ball fails him. Next week, he had a whole continuity about the Harriet Miers nomination. Now that she's withdrawn her name, those strips won't appear in […]
Lewis "Scooter" Libby indicted on five counts. Finally. […]
Michael Kinsley explains Act One of the "Plamegate" affair. Okay, I'm going to bed. All the usual sources are telling me that tomorrow's the day we get at least one high-level indictment. I have the dread feeling I'll wake up in the morning, turn on CNN and someone will be saying, "We have Breaking News […]
Someone has been indicted! Someone has been indicted! Okay, so it's a coin dealer in Ohio…but it's someone. […]
Time to carve your jack-o-lantern online. […]
See? No indictments this morning. There will never be any indictments of anyone. Indictments are so over. In other non-news: George W. Bush has "reluctantly accepted" Harriet Miers' decision to withdraw as a Supreme Court nominee. Just as last night, I "reluctantly accepted" delivery of that Chinese Food I ordered. […]
First of all, I have nothing to do with these interviews I told you about. If they won't play on your computer, don't come running to me. I've watched a few of them. The ones that have a good, well-informed interviewer are terrific but in some cases, the interviewer simply doesn't know enough about his […]
Read More… from The Archive of American Television Interviews
Political cartoonist Mike Luckovich does an amazing piece of work. Make sure you click on the PDF link to see it enlarged. […]
I am about to cost some of you a helluva lot of time. I mean like many, many hours of your life. For some years now, the Archive of American Television has been videotaping oral histories of important people in the field of TV. They've logged thousands of hours of these interviews and now they're […]
Here's an example of the kind of thing our public discourse could do without… A majority would vote for a Democrat over President Bush if an election were held this year, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday. In the latest poll, 55 percent of the respondents said that they would vote for the […]
The Allan Sherman collection, My Son, the Box, is much cheaper over at Barnes & Noble. At the moment, it's $111.98 if you're not a member of their book club, $100.78 if you are…and that's with free shipping. (It costs $25 a year to belong to their book club so this might be a good […]
Lost in the celebration today of the 35th anniversary of Doonesbury is the fact that 35 years ago, another strip started. Momma was the second newspaper strip of Mell Lazarus, who had previously done Miss Peach…and continued to do it, along with Momma, until 2002. (Quick Aside: I'd love it if someone would reprint large […]