Penn on Roy
Why, after years of mocking Siegfried and Roy, is the tall, verbal half of Penn and Teller giving press interviews on Roy's behalf? Over on his website, Penn explains. […]
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Synchronicity
So I post the link to the John Dean article, get in the car, drive over to a nearby drugstore and who do I see shopping there when I walk in? John Dean. I should have linked to something by Halle Berry. Actually, I always kind of admired John Dean and I wish there'd been […]
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John Dean explains what laws may have been broken in the Valerie Plame scandal. […]
Campaign Issues
Here's another example of the shortcomings of campaign coverage in this country. It is now being reported — and this apparently didn't take any vast amount of digging to uncover — that as governor, Arnold S. may not be able to rescind the increase in the car tax. Why are we hearing about this now? […]
Tiger Talk
Here's another opinion on what happened with Roy Horn and the tiger. Other animal experts are now saying that the tiger was trying to kill his handler and that it wasn't all an accident involving an otherwise benevolent animal trying to "help" Roy. I'm not sure how much the difference matters or if both views […]
Play Your Hunch
I have just made a small wager with someone that within the next week, Donald Rumsfeld will be changing jobs. […]
Which Way?
I've usually had good luck with online services that give you driving directions from one place to another. Tonight, I used Switchboard to tell me how to get to Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena and it told me to go get on the 101 Freeway. As I neared the 101, I consulted the printout to tell […]
Siegfried and Roy
You couldn't help but feel sad for Siegfried last night on Larry King Live. You also felt that he was only giving interviews because he or his advisers felt that, for their past work not to be besmirched (and for the future of any acts that use big cats, including theirs), they had to start […]
The Terminator and Robocomic
Here's another article about Leno cozying up to Schwarzenegger. I don't think it's as bad as this article makes it out to be. But it could get there. […]
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Michael Kinsley is not swooning for Wesley Clark. And while I think it would be nice to have a Democratic nominee that Republican chickenhawks can't brand as anti-military, neither am I. […]
Fixing a Hole
A minor adjustment I made in this site's design last night caused it to be unreadable in most older browsers. What happened — this will only make sense to those of you who know HTML coding — is that I neglected to close one "table" tag. The page still read fine in the current versions […]
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Andrew Sullivan is an openly gay conservative pundit who I find to be spectacularly off-target on most topics unrelated to being an openly gay conservative. But he does know that beat and here, in perhaps the most influential conservative forum in this country, he makes a strong case that conservatives are on the wrong side […]
Money Matters
Here's an interesting glitch in online banking that happened to me and that might happen to you. I use Microsoft Money, which downloads the details of my checking account and credit cards. On the first Monday of each month, my bank charges me a $12.00 service charge for my checking account and then because my […]
Jay and Arnold
Several articles today (like this one) are discussing the propriety of Jay Leno introducing Arnold Schwarzenegger at his victory party and otherwise boosting the man's candidacy. For what it's worth, I don't think Jay has gone easy on Arnold in the monologues but he has certainly left himself wide open to the charge. I think […]
Smothers Roasted
Here's a piece about the recent Friars Roast of Tom and Dick Smothers. [WARNING: Contains Jack Carter jokes. Approach with caution.] […]