How to Lose a War by Frank Rich, New York Times How to Be Tough on Terrorism by Robert B. Reich, American Prospect The Wrong Strategy by William Kristol, The Weekly Standard With Powers Like These, Can Repression Be Far Behind? by Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times The Daily Howler (latest dispatches) by Bob Somerby […]
Want to visit some stars' websites? Here's a list of some sites that are either run by famous stars or, for those who are deceased, their heirs… Buddy Ebsen, Tony Curtis, Ann-Margret, Rudy Vallee, Theodore Bikel, Abbott & Costello, Glenn Ford, Burgess Meredith, George Carlin, Pat Boone, Yvonne Craig, Patti Page, Eddie Cantor, Frankie Laine, […]
During the fifties, Jack Kirby did a brief, frustrating stint as the artist and creative impetus of Green Arrow, which was then one of DC Comics' second-string features. Jack had no love of the character and neither, from what I can tell, did anyone else for a few decades. But it was work at a […]
Game Show Network just skipped over the infamous Michael Larsen episodes in their sequence of rerunning Press Your Luck. Mr. Larsen was the unemployed air conditioner repairman who figured out how to beat the game board for over $110 thousand smackers, resulting in one of the most amazing programs I've ever seen on the tube. […]
Designing this website has forced me to learn all about a strange and mysterious language called HTML. It is the lingo in which this and most websites are written. Did you ever get a e-mail that was full of odd markings in brackets like <BR> and <p align="center">? Well, those are HTML codes and often, […]
Security in the Air by William F. Buckley, Jr. Let Bin Laden Speak by Joshua Micah Marshall, New York Post Search and Destroy by Joshua Micah Marshall, The New Republic George McGovern Was Right by Cal Thomas, Tribune-Media Services GOP Anger at President Gore's War Actions by Bernard Weiner, Democratic Underground Count Down by Jonathan […]
How I spent last week: Why, voice-directing Squishees, of course! This is a soon-to-be-released animated feature concocted and produced by my pal Don Oriolo, who otherwise manages the career of Felix the Cat. You all know Felix the Cat? The wonderful, wonderful cat? Well, whenever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag […]
Much to my surprise, the membership of the Writers Guild has voted to accept three of the four proposed changes to the credits manual…and the margin of loss for #4 (the most controversial change) was much smaller than I think anyone expected. The complete vote totals are available here. This will probably mean that the […]
Several of you have e-mailed me copies of this column by William Safire which seeks to alert the world to the clear and present danger presented by the Bush Administration's snooping on the citizenry. I've got to admit I've come to disbelieve anything Mr. Safire writes. This is the man who was dead certain that […]
We've spoken here before of Brad Oscar, who is subbing (matinees and some evenings) for Nathan Lane in The Producers on Broadway. Brad is now getting reviewed by the New York critics and, so far, they love him. Here's one review and here's another. Just added a column about my little buddy, Billy Barty. Read […]
A not-insignificant percentage of America watches its TV shows without at least fully hearing them. They read them via closed-captioning, which puts the text on the screen, often inaccurately. Vast howlers have emerged when speech-to-text conversion devices have been used on live events, since the devices "mishear" and do not distinguish between homonyms — "frees" […]
War is Heck by Frank Rich, New York Times Justifying War by Alan Keyes The Political Clock is Ticking by Kevin Phillips, Los Angeles Times The above links, like most posted here, are to articles that the operator of this website believes are interesting and which contribute to the national debate. He does not necessarily […]
I thought it might be interesting to demonstrate how our nation's current war strategy can be completely summarized by two comic book covers. […]
The Big Press Recount of the Florida vote has come and gone without us learning much about anything. Most of the stories in the "consortium" papers didn't seem to think much of their own survey, and didn't seem to know what was so newsworthy that it justified the time and trouble. (The fairest story seemed […]
We're still waiting for The Game Show Network to rerun the two episodes of Press Your Luck in which an unemployed air conditioning mechanic named Michael Larsen figured out a way to beat the "wheel" for over $110,000. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen on TV. The latest out of […]