If you're over at that Library of Congress website looking at Bob Hope stuff and you get through early, you might want to take a gander at this online exhibit. It features some of the lesser-known works of another legend — one who didn't live quite as long as Bob. […]
My buddy Paul Harris does a terrific radio show on KTRS in St. Louis. He is now doing a terrific weblog which he calls The Bucket. Just bookmarked it on my "Daily Visit" list and so should you. […]
As readers of this weblog know, one of my pet issues is how dysfunctional our court system is, especially with regard to crimes for which people receive the Death Penalty. I go back and forth on whether the Death Penalty is just, moral or even a good idea…but I do not waver on the belief […]
Just fixed some typos and rewrote two badly-written sentences in the Bob Hope piece. Also, in answer to Jerry Beck's question over at Cartoon Research, I understand Bob did have a complete collection of the Bob Hope comic book. In fact, there are some in this exhibit of his life at The Library of Congress. […]
Over at Salon, Michelle Goldberg writes a thought-provoking article about the uneasiness some Republicans feel about where Bush is taking the country. This feels like an important issue to me. Since this is Salon, you have to either be a subscriber or watch ads in order to read the entire article. If you've been thinking […]
Fans used to complain that DC Comics had misleading covers but this one sure was accurate: "America's Favorite Funnyman." Bob Hope was that, and he held the title far longer than anyone else ever has or will. I haven't really cruised the Internet much since I awoke to the news that he's passed away but […]
I just happened across this news item from May and was disappointed to learn that the experts who once thought they could recover the sound from the infamous Nixon tape have given up. What was said during the eighteen-and-a-half minute gap remains a mystery…at least for now. […]
Several folks (including its proprietor, Jonah Weiland) have written to me concerning my comments on the website, Comic Book Resources. All have noted that one can avoid pop-ups by skipping the first page and going directly to, for instance, Scott Shaw!'s Oddball Comics Page. Or Augie DeBlieck Jr's Pipeline column. Or even Steven Grant's Permanent […]
Michelle Malkin on the Secret Service investigating editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez. […]
A former Nixon associate says he overheard Nixon order the Watergate break-in. As a confirmed wallower in that scandal, I've always believed that Nixon either ordered the break-in or gave a non-specific order that that kind of thing be done. Still, this admission by Jeb Magruder comes so long after the event and is so […]
The dangers of wireless internet access. By the way: This article is on the Washington Post website and like many to which I link, you have to register for the site in order to read the article. Some folks have informed me that they don't like to register for newspaper sites, mainly because they fear […]
I've received (so far) exactly 50 e-mails commenting on my comments about William Bennett. What with deadlines, I don't think I have time to answer most of them, so I'm not going to answer any of them. Thank you all for writing and I did read them all. But a script awaits… […]
Bill Maher has started a weblog with hard-to-read graphics. I assume that will change. […]
Last one for a while. But I wanted to point out that when the gambling scandal first broke, here's what the author of The Book of Virtues was saying in the press… "Over 10 years, I'd say I've come out pretty close to even." [source] And here's what he's saying now… "I lost money. Overall, […]
George Guay sends the following thoughts, most of which I think are correct… There's an additional, interesting wrinkle to Bennett's statements about not wanting to enforce the Texas sodomy law. From the mid60s, when the Supreme Court recognized that a right to privacy was implicit in the US Constitution (such that a state could not […]