Sky Redoubt sent me a couple of bits from the New Yorker worth reading. One comes from the collection last week of Norman Mailer’s correspondence touching on political issues over the years. To Diana Trilling in 1966: I don’t make…
Francis B. Sayre Jr. was born in the White House 93 years ago, a grandson of President Wilson, and died on Martha’s Vineyard the other day. Quite an arc, as we say in Hollywood. Sayre was an Episcopal leader, the…
The last time I was in Pennsylvania, working for Kerry. That won’t be necessary this time. November 4 is going to be a great night. We might as well start planning. America will change that night, it will amaze the…
Yahoo Sports breaks a taboo today, by saying that both general managers for the American League teams in the championship series share “ethnic/religious heritage.” They’re both Jewish. The writer can’t even get that word out of his mouth, but the…
My co-assimilationist Brian Dana Akers showed me this metric. Obama’s kicking McCain’s butt online in somewhat direct proportion to his polling success. This is from Alexa, a traffic-measurer. I say it doesn’t really matter whether Obama wins or loses, he’s…
A few months back a friend told me that the business of this blog was to produce the prose equivalent of the classic French movie, La Guerre Est Finie. In that movie, a Communist played by Yves Montand comes to…
I went for a walk with my wife yesterday and bragged about my two last headlines re Ralph Seliger, one about him bitchslapping me, and another saying he was on me like a duck on a junebug. “Poor Ralph,” said…
Jeff Blankfort just sent me this attack on anti-Zionists by a Zionist, Ami Isseroff, on a Zionist site. Seems like it was written earlier this year. Here’s the weird bit, at the end: If the Arab Palestinian movement to destroy…
The High Holidays produce anxiety for me. Some of the anxiety flows from the “days of awe” themselves, in which you are to make an inventory of your sins against laws that are meaningless and laws that are not; and…