10.31 Gov. Cuomo, after Trump announces that he is changing his residence from New York to Florida: “Good riddance.” 10.30 In a gem of a game, The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros 6-2, winning their series 4 games to 3. Every game in the series was won by the home team. During the playoffs, …
10.17 Trump‘s letter to Erdogan “Don’t be a fool!” 10.17 ABC’s Jonathan Karl, at White House Briefing: “[T]o be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is: Funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well.” Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney: “We do …
9.30 Albany 9.30 Elizabeth Drew in the Times: Speaker Pelosi and her allies argue that a narrow, Ukraine-based impeachment agenda is more likely to attract wider public support than a collection of grievances because it “is easier for the public to understand.” They’re spooked by the failure of the report by the special counsel, Robert …
8.31 Hugh Grant denounces Boris Johnson on Twitter: “You will not fuck with my children’s future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. Fuck off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory prefects.” 8.28 Frank Bruni in the New …
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7.31 On a taped 1971 phone conversation, Governor Reagan discusses a UN event with President Nixon, “Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did . . . To see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” 7.31 Cory Booker: “We lost the state …
My friend Martin Charnin, the versatile, venerable showman, most famously as the lyricist and director of the Broadway show Annie, died last week. I met him circa 1991. One day out of the blue a man called me. He had read an article I had written for Spy called “When Disney Ruled America,” a speculative …
Perhaps I am partial to photos of right year old girls in Mia Hamm jerseys–having once had a couple of them around the house myself–but I was uplifted by the photo below. Taken in 2002, it shows yooung Rose Lavelle–not merely a member of world champion USWNT, but winner of the Bronze Boot for being …
Here’s Ginny, showing that she ain’t too proud to see a Broadway show featuring all the hits of the fabulous Temptations, even if it means standing in the heat amidst a milling crowd posing for her annoying husband.