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Paul Jacob explains that when Senators say they're against pork-barrel spending, they mean "in any state but mine." […]
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Here's a link to a free read of the Maureen Dowd column I mentioned in the previous message. Thanks, Bruce. […]
Saturday Afternoon
I suppose it's too much to hope for weekend indictments. It's kinda fascinating to watch the public mea culpas and recriminations of The New York Times. Clearly, the Times made a lot of errors and misjudgments on both the Valerie Plame story and all the stories that parroted and/or validated Bush administration claims that got […]
Zero-Sum Game
My pal Tom Stewart writes… About the movie of The Producers being compared to, well, the movie of the musical, The Producers. While I'm a huge fan of the original movie, I think the musical solved a problem I always had with the first version: it has no real third act. I've always felt that […]
What Fitzgerald Has Been Doing
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has set up his own website…but there are still no indictments. Come on, Pat. Indict someone…anyone. Indict the guy in the suit covered in question marks in those commercials. Nobody likes him. Indict Martha Stewart again. That was very popular. Indict the Los Angeles Dodgers for impersonating a baseball team. If […]
More Max
Earlier, we linked to one online trailer for upcoming movie of The Producers. Here's a link to another trailer. One might note, as I did, that almost all the non-singing dialogue in this trailer consists of lines that were in the original movie. […]
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Michael Kinsley on free speech: Your right to talk and a reporter's right not to. […]
Porky, R.I.P.
Not long after the death of Tommy Bond, who played the bully in the Our Gang comedies, we now have word of the passing, on October 16, of the actor who played Porky. He was known off-screen as both Eugene Lee and Gordon Lee…born in 1933 in Ft. Worth, Texas. He joined the Our Gang […]
Good Morning!
No one indicted yet? Aw, shucks. Well, maybe it's just early. […]
Nighty-night!
Going to bed now. Hope someone (anyone) will be indicted by the time I wake up. Hey, how about Leonard Nimoy? He hasn't had his name in the news for a while. […]
Fantastic First
I'm not sure I mentioned it but I wrote an article that will appear in Maximum Fantastic Four, a deluxe hardcover reprinting of the first issue of what Stan Lee was soon calling, in all modesty, "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine." I have not seen one bit of this book apart from what I […]
From the E-Mailbag
This is from Jef Peckham… Lately, you have been opining quite a bit about the Plame/Rove story and the DeLay indictment. Please allow me to opine a bit. It's all boring, and IMO means next to nothing, no matter which side of the political spectrum one happens to fall on. Ultimately it comes down to […]
Set the TiVo! (Well, Maybe…)
Overnight this weekend (late Saturday night, early Sunday morn), NBC is rerunning a Saturday Night Live from November 9, 1985 hosted by Madonna, with musical guests Simple Minds. This was the season where the cast included Randy Quaid, Joan Cusack, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller and others, and I don't recall this episode […]
Good Advice Costs Nothing (and it's worth the price…)
The Rhino Handmade website still doesn't have a real announcement about My Son, the Box, the Allan Sherman compilation for which we are all jonesing…but they have put up a tiny squib that says it's coming soon. They also say it's $120, which is twenty bucks cheaper than the Amazon listing. Aren't you glad you […]
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Two important (I think) articles over on Slate… Jack Shafer discusses the journalistic embarrassment that Judy Miller's articles have been for the New York Times. I don't know why people say the Times is a Liberal paper. With Whitewater, with the whole "Weapons of Mass Destruction" debacle and maybe with the Wen Ho Lee case, […]