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 …
My pal Bob Love bought me sushi yesterday at a nice place near 46th and Park whose name has already galloped out of my head. He had good news that the yoga book on which he has been working for so long has been making good progress through the editing stages. It was great to …
The New York Times, November 5, 2008
According to the site mongabay.com, the U.S. Bureau of the Census says MALANOWSKI ranks # 46944 in terms of the most common surnames in the United States for 2000. Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, MALANOWSKI would occur an average of 0.16 times. The Census Bureau says that 95.07 percent were …
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, in this defining moment, change has come to America.”
Vote Number 400 in District 26 in the Town of Ossining, New York, on November 4, 2008, at approximately 2:30 PM.