FURNITURE SHOPPING?
Donald Trump in 2005, caught on a hot microphone. “You can do anything–grab ’em by the pussy.”
OCTOBER 2016 “YOU CAN DO ANYTHING”
10.18 Stuart Rotherberg in the Washington Post: The newest NBC-Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump doing worse against Clinton than Mitt Romney did against President Obama with almost every demographic group, including men, women, whites, Latinos, Republicans, voters with household incomes of more than $100,000 per year, voters with a college degree, voters with a …
SEPTEMBER 2016
9.30 Governor Cuomo: “The central plank of my administration has always been about public integrity and zero tolerance for any waste, fraud or abuse. If anything, I hold a friend to a higher standard,” he said in Buffalo on Friday. “It’s the first time since we lost my father that I didn’t miss him being …
THE HURDY GURDY MAN
On Sunday I saw Donovan at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill. Or, if I was nasty, I’d say I saw a 70 year old Donovan impersonator. The veteran trouper did his best to put on a good show, singing all of his sweet, romantic songs, as well as his outstanding and outstandingly odd compositions, like …
WILD RAMBLE
Went to the Midnight Ramble with Dave Jensen on September 9th. The band was excellent–they really cooked.
SEPTEMBER 2016
9.13 Household incomes rose strongly in 2015, breaking a yearslong pattern of income stagnation. The median household’s income in 2015 was $56,500, an increase of 5.2 percent over the previous year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. . . .The median household income is still 1.6 percent lower than in 2007, before the recession. It also …
MAP, BOND MAP
From Atlas Obscura, the Ian Fleming Literary Map, an essential guide to the locations of every assignation and allegation, as well as other information, from Fleming’s fourteen James Bond novels.
AUGUST 2016
8.31 Visited Rose in Maryland 8.30 New York Post: “A team of scientists that investigated extraterrestrial signals from deep space may have found signs of an advanced civilization in the solar system of a sun-sized star 95 light-years away. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researchers believe that a strong signal detected from a 6.3-billion-year-old …
“ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE”
I am honored to join you at this extraordinary time. Some elections are about candidates. Some are about issues. Some, like 1984, when my father delivered his powerful keynote speech, are more profound This election is not just a question of which candidate we want, who we want to be. At stake is much more …