Today’s Times has a good piece about the leftwing rage toward Joe Lieberman for being George Bush’s lapdog on the disastrous Iraq policy. Even the Daily Kos has come out for Lieberman’s primary opponent, Ned Lamont, who wants Connecticut to…
A friend invited me to row up the Hudson yesterday and I met Rob and his mates at Croton Point—very pretty, and dominated by a massive landfill now covered in grass, with a plant to burn off the methane. A…
When I saw Glenn Reynolds on NBC News last week, I was taken aback. Here was a real-live person, on camera. To me, Glenn Reynolds is an internet star, the famous Instapundit, a great blogger. Seeing him on TV was…
I went into the Observer offices yesterday to see my editor. We’re old friends. (Yes, Virginia, it is about who you know). I complimented him for the Sopranos cover of the Observer then I asked him what he was doing…
Dan Barry’s story in the Times today about writings by a victim of 9/11 that her North Dakota family only discovered in the last two months, having put off looking in her laptop as long as they could, was a…
Roscoe Bartlett I was supposed to go somewhere yesterday afternoon when I turned on C-Span and saw a somewhat stooped old guy on the House floor talking about the end of oil supplies, whipping out one chart after another. The…
If you watch as much TV sports as I do, and care as much about popular culture, there comes a day when you wake up and say to yourself, Why am I in love with that Geico gecko? I called…
This is the most expensive piece of furniture I’ve ever gotten. It’s a recamier couch that’s covered in blue mattress ticking. It cost $2400. My wife saw it upstate and then I had to go get it. I’ve never felt…
On Sunday I left my mom a message, thereby getting essential Mother’s Day credit, and when we talked yesterday she said excitedly that she had heard rumors that Karl Rove was about to be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak…