“SERIOUSLY LEGIT”
Three years I joined the staff of Governor Cuomo. This week he gave me this handsomely framed appointment document. Much appreciated. In a text, my daughter Cara pronounced me `seriously legit.’ So there. And I get paychecks.
MARCH 2019: “THEY’RE JUST SCAREDY CATS”
3.30 Michael Che on SNL: “How can America run out of space [to hold immigrants]? We still have two Dakotas. Most countries don’t even have one.” 3.30 Albany 3.30 Albany 3.29 Thomas Piketty at Columbia 3.29 Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “So, what is the president afraid of? Is he afraid of the truth, that he would …
DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK
The terrible news of the past week has shocked and distressed the world. We extend our sympathies to those who lost loved ones. Our Muslim brothers and sisters in New Zealand and Holland, and all of our friends across the globe, need to know that Americans condemn not only those who perpetrated these actions, but …
MARCH 2019: “HE’S JUST NOT WORTH IT”
3.15 A white supremacist in Christchurch NZ livestreamed his shooting rampage during Friday prayers at two mosques that left at least 49 dead and another 48 receiving hospital treatment. The shooter also posted a 74-page manifesto entitled `The Great Replacement,’ in which he identified himself as a 28-year-old white man born in Australia. He claimed …
FEBRUARY 2019: “AMERICA, DO NOT COMMIT CRIMES WITH CHECKS”
2.28 Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: In 1980, the highest-earning men actually worked fewer hours per week than middle-class and low-income men, according to a survey by the Minneapolis Fed. But that’s changed. By 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men had the longest average workweek. In that same time, college-educated men reduced their …
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RIP FRANK ROBINSON (1937-2019)
Frank Robinson was traded to the Baltimore Orioles before the start of the 1966 season, the year I turned 13. I didn’t have long years of observation to draw up, but even then I recognized that I had never seen a player who played with his intensity and aggressiveness. We had had good players on …
FEBRUARY 2019 REVENGE, RESISTANCE & RETRIBUTION
2.8 Albert Finney dies 2.7 Huffington Post: David Pecker, the chief executive of American Media Inc., which publishes the tabloid National Enquirer, threatened to publish embarrassing photos of Jeff Bezos if he didn’t stop investigating Pecker’s company, according to the Amazon CEO. Bezos revealed the alleged threat, which was sent through AMI chief content officer …
LARRY AND TERESA TAKE IRVINGTON
Ginny and I and our friends Cathy and Tim caught Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams at the Irvington Town Hall on Saturday, February 2nd. They were tremendous, and the hall was intimate and comfortable.
JANUARY 2019: “WE NEED A NEW ARCHITECTURE”
1.31 The Polar Vortex comes to New York 1.31 George Will in the Post: “[Klobuchar‘s] special strength, however, is her temperament. Baseball, it has been said, is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. That is also true of politics, another day-by-day game with a long season. It requires an emotional equipoise, …
BILL JAMES FOR THE HALL OF FAME
This article appeared in the New York Times on January 21, 2019. This week, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce a new class of inductees, setting off rounds of celebrations — and debates. Fans will argue over whether Mariano Rivera deserves unanimous approval, or whether the use of performance-enhancing drugs should permanently block the …