Recommended Reading
Mark Katz on writing jokes for Bill Clinton's speeches. […]
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A Prediction
A friend of mine who asks that I describe him as "loosely a member of the Washington Press Corps" asks also that I post his prediction: That the Democratic ticket will be John Kerry and Max Cleland. If he's right, remember you heard it here first. If he's not, hell, I didn't think that. […]
Elsewhere on the 'Net
You know what we need? More stories about gay penguins. Thank God that Burgess Meredith didn't live to see this. […]
Bernie Allen
Just found out that longtime Vegas comedian Bernie Allen died in mid-January at age 87. The man born Bernard Kleinberg had an amazing life. He was wounded in World War II, about three minutes after he first set foot in the field of battle. Back home in the states, he became a funny diner owner, […]
Ten Years Ago Today
Almost every day of my life in the last ten years, someone has asked me a question about Jack Kirby. And every day of those ten years, something I see or something that happens in my world causes me to think about Jack and to recall something I was privileged to hear him say. Often, […]
Last Night Late Show
At the taping for last night's Late Show With David Letterman, a demonstration went wrong and a snowboarder was injured, apparently not seriously. Nevertheless, the taping was halted and that episode was not completed. If you'd like to know what it was like for those in the studio audience, an attendee posted this message to […]
Spy Where?
I mentioned computer viruses earlier. We all have to have a good anti-virus program installed to scan for them (I use Norton) but we also want to keep an eye out for Spyware. These are programs or little files that websites put on our computers in order to find out things about those who surf […]
Presidential Blogging
Former president Jimmy Carter is publishing a weblog of his travels. […]
Virus Help
If you get the MyDoom com computer virus (or any of around 36 of the most popular viruses currently making the rounds), your system can probably be saved by the free Avert Stinger program offered by the McAfee people. It's no substitute for real virus protection but if you catch something, this utility should be […]
Recommended Reading
And here's Michael Kinsley's latest column, which is about how Democrats seem to be fumbling about to find the candidate who is least likely to appeal to Democrats. Well, that's not it exactly. Read it and you'll understand. […]
Gay Marriage
We're all about to get quite weary of hashing and rehashing the issue of gay marriage. It probably is not, like guns and abortion and where to get the best pizza, one of those ceaseless arguments. That is, it has a resolution but right now, none of those arguing it in the public arena are […]
Cheaper Review
Scott Shaw! makes no claim to being an unbiased reviewer of the new book by his pal, Floyd Norman. But he comes to all the same conclusions that I came to when I reviewed the same book by my pal, Floyd Norman. […]
Creator Wrongs
An author-publisher named Clifford Meth is involved in a campaign to convince Marvel Comics, either out of decency or to avoid rotten publicity, to pay royalties to artist Dave Cockrum. Dave and writer Len Wein revamped the old, cancelled X-Men property into the new, wildly profitable X-Men franchise. Now, Dave is ill and unable to […]
Bush's Military Record
I may have one of the very few weblogs that ever links to both sides of a debate. If you're interested in this little argument over the National Guard Service (or lack, thereof) on the part of the current Oval Office occupant, here are two opposing views. Eric Boehlert over at Salon says that the […]
Loose Ends
I've had a nice e-mail exchange with Bill Stosin, the gent who used my posting here in a letter to the Washington Times. (It also made it into his hometown paper, The Daily Iowan. Here's a link to the page.) No writer likes to see his work appear with someone else's name on it, but […]