I know, I know, I’m way behind on this, but I just heard about the report in The New York Post‘s Page Six in late November that Ann Coulter has broken her jaw, and has had it wired shut. Is no one afraid that we risk the creation of a black hole when she implodes?
Day after day, drip after drip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough wages a low-key but relentless campaign to make us believe that the presidency of George W. Bush wasn’t all that bad. One morning this past week, Scarborough advanced the idea that the Bush presidency could be divided into three sections: the part after 9/11, for which …
For years, the financial writer Alice Schroeder had urged Warren Buffet to write his autobiography. Buffet continually demurred, and then countered with a question: why don’t you write a biography. He offered her full access to himself and to his papers, and encouraged his family and associates to cooperate, without, importantly, exerting any sort of …
You’d think that HBO, the network that for seven seasons gave us a perfectly pitched story of the personal and professional life of a criminal monster, would have done a better job with the story of Saddam Hussein, but House of Saddam, a four-part miniseries that begins airing Sunday, disappoints. The son of an interfering …
Here is a piece I published this morning on The Daily Beast. Click on the link to see their fabulous slide show. “I’ve been spending a lot of time reading Lincoln,” President-elect Barack Obama told 60 Minutes recently. “There is a wisdom there and a humility about his approach to government, even before he was …
The website iwantmedia.com is conducting a poll for Media Person of the Year, and it turns out that among the nominees, along with Tina Fey, Arianna Huffington, Mel Karmazin, Jason Kilar, Rachel Maddow, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Schmidt, th Twitter Trio and Sam Zell is– me! Or at me, in the guise of The Laid-Off Journalist. Says …
Will all famous people turn out to be surprisingly stupid? Six weeks ago, Sarah Palin shocked everyone with her understanding of the vice president’s duties by saying, inaccurately, “They’re in charge of the US Senate so if they want to, they can really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good …
My friend Gina Duclayan (center picture, foreground, in front of Kurt Andersen and her future husband Daniel Radosh) posted an album of photos from the Spy days on her facebook page. Fun to see the kids. (I wonder who got custody of the flag?) Shown in the enlargement-resistent photo at right (you’ll have to take …
Yesterday morning, I posted this item on trueslant.com and on playboy.com (I would have put it here, but I forgot): Sometimes nature abhors a vacuum, and sometimes it tortures it. Barack Obama was technically correct when he observed the other week that we only have one president at a time, but as we’re seeing, right …
Casino Royale did so much to refurbish and rehabilitate James Bond, but A Quantum of Solace does not advance the effort nearly as much. Daniel Craig‘s portrayal of Bond was a major element in the restoration, but it was really the character of Vesper Lynd, played by the wonderful Eva Green) that made the greatest …