Jamie Malanowski

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOLLY!

Happy birthday Molly, 22 years old (okay, tomorrow.) Here’s a wish for a long life full of happiness, pretty girl. (Photo taken at the Cheesecake Factory in White Plains, where the four of us had a pleasant, overpriced dinner.)

SURVEILLANCE REACTION

I am flattered that Boston blogger Brian Kane took a close interest in my Washington Monthly article on surveillance in the UK. He wasn’t entirely pleased–“I think Malanowski too readily dismisses the potential for significant abuse with the argument that there’s no centralization of all these surveillance systems at the moment,” he writes, and who …

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HIDEKI AND JOHNNY

In this week’s issue of The New Yorker, Roger Angell offers his customary valediction to the baseball season–the year’s not over until Angell sings. Although he rightly singles out Johnny Damon‘s at-bat in the top of the ninth of Game Four as the pivotal moment of the series, the great Angell punts the description a …

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SO LONG, CAMERON

House has been one of my favorite television shows lo these many years, in no small measure thanks to the contributions of Jennifer Morrison, who plays the very smart, very moral, very pretty Dr. Cameron. Well, it appears Cameron has been bid sayonara. In Tuesday’s episode she left the hospital, left her husband (the never …

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