According to an article in The Telegraph, Tony Blair‘s memoir, A Journey, is under consideration for “the least coveted prize in literature”– The Bad Sex Prize, which is presented annually to the author who has done the worst job writing about sex. Previous winners include Sebastian Faulks and Philip Kerr. Blair has been catapulted into …
We went to see the film Secretariat yesterday. It was a fairly standard sports story, full of the usual sports story pleasures–a plucky lead character, colorful supporting characters, beautiful pictures of competition. Diane Lane and James Cromwell had some swell scenes involving business dealings. The big let down for me came when they showed Secretariat …
After a middling October in which key players struggled and the team gave away a first-place finish in the standings, I didn’t have a great feeling about the Yankees’ chances this October. Now, after a three-game sweep of a very good Twins team–one which was accomplished without much from Alex Rodriguez and only a very …
My daughter Cara hasn’t ridden in a horse show in five or six months, but today at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport CT, she won best in show. She won the jumping competition and finished first and sixth and the flat events for an overall first place finish. Way to go, Cara!
Writing on the op-ed page of The New York Times, William D. Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, the very informative and often shocking account of the collapse of Bear Stearns, has written one of the sharpest, most succinct, most lucid articles on reforming the …
The once and perhaps future governor of California Jerry Brown is the latest public figure to become entangled in a Loose Lips imbroglio. As reported in The Los Angeles Times, candidate Brown or one of his associates can be heard speaking in a private conversation inadvertently captured by voicemail, calling his Republican opponent Meg Whitman …
In town to visit old buddy George Kalogerakis and the gang at The New York Times who will be working on our Civil War blog.
Killing time between screenings of Casino Jack and Gerrymandering at Magno Screening Room.
Cara and I spent the weekend in New England, visiting the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont (left), mostly for the purpose of affirming that she really hopes to be attending the University of Kentucky or Texas A&M this time next year. The ride up Friday night was stressful, taking place in …
Allow me to join the chorus praising The Social Network, the new film directed by David Fincher from Aaron Sorkin‘s exceptional screenplay, loosely based on the creation of Facebook. I’m not sure if Mark Zuckerberg is exactly like the character depicted on screen, but as he has been written, and as he has been portrayed …