Being from Chicago, but by way of Honolulu and Jakarta and many other points west and east, President Obama may not be fully steeped in the doctrines of the Chicago School of Management, as expounded by the eminent Professor Al Capone. Employing phraseology composed by wordsmith David Mamet, Mr. Capone discoursed on the fundamentals of …
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Forgive me for being slow on the uptake, but the inimitable Louden Wainwright III has written a song called The Paul Krugman Blues. It’s very droll: “When Paul goes on The NewsHour to talk to old Jim Lehrer/ He looks so sad and crestfallen it’s more than I can bear/ And all the other experts …
Here’s a bit of remarkable news that arrived over the weekend: Amazon.com’s Kindle, through The Atlantic, is going to sell short stories. They’re going to start with two stories, one by Christopher Buckley and one by Edna O’Brien, and they’re going to charge readers $3.99 to read the stories. The only place a reader will …
Had an interesting change-of-pace day yesterday courtesy of Smart Box, an eight year-old French firm that is coming to the US. Smart Box is in the business of selling gift experiences–instead of buying a friend a scarf or a tie or the usual boring thing as a present, you can buy him or her an …
My friend Julie Mihaly, Spy‘s clever, creative photo editor in the Puck Building days and for a spell on Union Square as well, saw the photos I had posted on the blog here and here and here and here, and decided to do some local photo research–local, like in her own photo albums–to see what …
In what is apt to the first of many items published in conenction with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The New York Times today published two articles about John Brown, marking the, yes, 150th anniversary of his hanging. The author Tony Horwitz eloquently writes of the striking parallels between Brown and the Islamist …
With no good option on Afghanistan available, it’s clear President Obama last night took the one he considered least bad–and by least bad, we mean the most likely to avoid the Worst Case Scenario. In the president’s case, that would be the “I told you so” scenario, the one that would become possible if America …
Beth Lomax Hawes, folklorist, member of the great Lomax family of musical anthropologists, member of the Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, among others (that would be Beth in the photo below tucked into the upper right hand corner, above Pete, with Woody to her right), and most memorably, co-author of amusing song …