George H.W. Bush has died, which means some work I contributed to THE once mighty Time Inc empire has finally seen the light of day. Five or six years ago. when Steve Koepp was running Time books, he recruited me to contribute to a few of the books they were producing. President Bush was feeling …
12.13 Margaret Atwood: The systematic effort to drive a rift between access to knowledge and the citizens of a country has a familiar ring to this dystopian novelist. When I wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, I made sure that nothing went into it that had not come from somewhere in history. I used journalists, historians, and …
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Speechwriters get their yules tied at the Governor’s Holiday Party in Albany. That’s Mac Barrett, Amy Hubbard, and Tom Topoussis with me.
We caught Marshall Crenshaw at the Turning Point in Piermont with our friends Cathy Gallagher and Tim Hart.
12.6 Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry tied the NFL record witha 99 yard touchdown run against the Jacksonville Jaguars, highlighted by three amazing stiff arms of would-be tacklers. 12.6 Geore W. Bush eulogizes his father: In his inaugural address, the 41st President of the United States said this, we cannot hope only to leave …
We went to see see David Bromberg at the Colony in Woodstock, and who wandered onto the stage but Larry Campbell? Bromberg was terrific–in great voice, he performed with great verve and personality. And Larry was at his Larryest. We had a very good time.
I’m delighted to be here tonight at the Jewish Labor Committee’s 47th Human Rights Awards Dinner. Not long ago I visited a library. Among their collection were books on the history of New York, and books on the United States. There were books about Immigration; about the experiences of the Jews, and the Italians, and …
11.30 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president, dies at 94. 11.30 Barck Obama, quoted in The Atlantic: “There was a reverence there for that [Oval] office that is independent of you, and if you don’t feel that, then you shouldn’t be there. Because a lot of fights, a lot of sacrifices, a lot of bloodshed …
This was a week of hate in America. The crimes that shocked our nation this week—attempted political assassination, mass murder—are beyond horrifying. Between the pipe bombs, the murders at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that constituted the worse attack on the Jewish community in American history, and the murder of two random black …
10.31 Trump: “Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship, something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican Majority will work on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!” 10.30 Paul Ryan: “You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.” 10.30 Whitey Bulger, …