how to impeach bush cheney and not spill your gin and tonic

The sad irony is: If the US government were actually run like a real business, a Conservative goal, then Bush and Cheney would have been fired a long time ago. But, this isn’t the case. More of an ideological problem, and an emotional one, than one based in any type of reality. The Carpetbagger goes [...]

as time goes by

One of the great movie music moments, Ryan O’Neil and Barbra Streisand in Peter Bogdonovich’s “What’s Up Doc?” Although O’Neil is clearly struggling with aping the piano playing, and he can’t sing, the entire scene is rooted in Streisand’s stellar voice. When she launches into the line “a sigh….” it still gives me goosebumps, as [...]

iPhone silliness

My better half and I live on the Upper East Side, and we walk a great deal, and the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue is one of the places where we’ll stop on occasion. We observed the lines of people outside the store, some camping out for days, to be the first on their block [...]

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