Lately, fewer of my e-mail correspondents are interested in selling me drugs and more want to loan me money. Here's an e-mail that just now arrived, somehow making it past my intricate series of Spam filters… Here is Buford Craft. I write to you because we are accepting your mortgage application. Our office confirms you […]
Today on the news, I saw George W. Bush saying over and over that he will never allow a new military draft. I usually think Bush believes what he says even when I think he's dead wrong. In this case, he didn't convince me he wasn't thinking, in the back of his mind, "If and […]
As you may have heard, there was a sudden change in the London company of The Producers, which is about to open. Richard Dreyfuss was going make his musical comedy debut in the lead role of Max Bialystock. Just the other day, citing medical problems, Dreyfuss pulled out and he's been replaced, only days before […]
My wrist is improving. Thanks to everyone who sent in suggestions about what to do about it. (Most of you suggested a trackball and I may — you'll excuse the expression — give one a whirl.) People keep forwarding me links to articles about the bulge on the back of George W. Bush during the […]
A Disney stockholders suit against Michael Eisner is coming to trial. Here's an article about it. The most interesting item to me is where it says, "[Michael Ovitz] charged the company as much as $125 a person for food served at executive meetings at his house, an amount later reduced to $15 as he neared […]
Posting may be kind of light here the next few days. I have an important deadline and a bad wrist. After years of ache-free computering, I finally developed a pain in my Carpals (or thereabout) from moving the mouse around. Rest, warm compresses and an Ace wrist band have lessened the hurt…but I've fallen behind […]
The Tampa Tribune is a right-wing newspaper that, with one exception, has endorsed every Republican presidential nominee since Eisenhower. The one exception was Barry Goldwater and that year, they decided both candidates were unacceptable and endorsed no one. This year, they've come to the same decision. […]
I just changed the link to the Ron Suskind article in the previous posting. Same article, different link, no New York Times subscription necessary. In fact, here's the link again. […]
Ron Suskind discusses the faith and management style of George W. Bush. Not a flattering portrait. […]
A few more thoughts on the Jon Stewart evisceration of Crossfire… I've been watching that show — sometimes steadily, sometimes not — since the days when it was Michael Kinsley on the left and Pat Buchanan on the right. (Not exactly a balanced match-up since Kinsley was only a bit left of center and Buchanan […]
What's wrong with George W. Bush? This is not a political post, so my few friends who are uncomfy with my views on this election can read it. Maybe one of them can even tell me what might be wrong with their boy and the way he talks. I keep seeing clips of him addressing […]
There's an online video of Jon Stewart's appearance today on Crossfire. As you'll see, he sat there and trashed the show while its hosts tried to smile and make like it was all happy banter. Here's the link and here's my thanks to Shmuel Ross for letting me know where to find it so I […]
If you missed Crossfire this afternoon on CNN, you missed seeing Jon Stewart come on and spend the entire segment not plugging his new book but trashing Crossfire, its hosts, and the news media in general. It was one of the more uncomfortable half-hours I've seen on television…but one that was not without many interesting […]
If I've learned anything in this world — and I'm sure we all agree that's a pretty big "if" — it's not to waste a lot of time with service people who cannot help you. As I found with my recent dispute with a local supermarket, when you call Customer Service, you're dealing with people […]
Jonathan Chait takes on one of the phoniest games in all of politics…the counting not of taxes but of votes for tax increases. […]