We had a swell time the day after Christmas by hydroplaning down to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and joining the gang for dinner at Dominick’s. The always-crowded family style restaurant had long been one of favorite haunts, and though Ginny and I had not eaten there for ten years or so, we had spent …
TMZ has posted this photo purportedly showing JFK on a boat full of naked women. The article details how TMZ received verification from photo experts who conformed that the print was made on paper consistent with the late fifties, that the damage to the print was consistent with processes of the day, that there are …
The usual Christmas Eve gang evidenced some new tricks the home of Cathy Gallagher and Tim Hart, pulling out the old chestnut, charades. Smooth Criminal. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. Avatar. The Audacity of Hope. Going Rogue. Tiger Woods. Up. Smiles all around. UP: Greg and Susan; …
Showing how sometimes shockingly ignorant I am, I had never heard of Hank Stuever until The Washington Monthly asked me to review his new book, Tinsel. It turns out that Stuever is a very popular writer for The Washington Post, and that Tinsel is, and here I quote myself, “a stylishly written and often delightful …
According to a new book by a professor at Duquesne University Law School, Osama bin Laden tried to assassinate President Bill Clinton during a 1996 visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the Philippines. This is something of a scoop, for although Ramzi Yousef confessed to plotting the assassination of Clinton in the …
And so now, after months of tedious, tendentious argument, after riotous town meetings and the hysteria over non-existent death squads, after the Palin moment and the Lieberman moment, passage of historic legislation a hair’s breadth away, and here comes Howard Dean to say that the whole thing isn’t worth a damn thing. Bag it, says …
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 …