My little brother says there were a couple things about the Sopranos finale that lifted it into greatness. 1, The characterization of Tony’s power. Tony could on the one hand manipulate his men into thinking that he wanted rival boss…
One of the great things about blogging is that all the stuff I fulminated about in private over the last few years (not getting assigned to write about it for Mainstream magazines) I now have to put down in cyberspace,…
Everyone is now so intoxicated with The Sopranos (including me) that the producers think they can do anything they want with us. It’s not a good spot, for us or them. Last night’s season finale (which precedes a final season)…
There was a year or two that I wanted one, and didn’t spring for it, and a good thing too. Now they’re everywhere. This one stared me down in my room at the Wyndham Hotel chain this weekend. Didn’t buy…
John Podhoretz has now sent me a note to explain his first email to me: Good Lord, Weiss, I was making fun of your preposterous and hysterical neocon baiting. I presumed you would see my name at the top of…
A couple days ago I did my most successful item, counting by serious comments: about the vanishing progressive Jewish presence in public life, from my viewpoint as an assimilating Jew. Later that day I opened my email to discover a…
Someone had run over this black snake on a woods road. Some people like doing that kind of thing. My dog wasn’t wild about having his picture taken with it. This is as close as he would sit. He didn’t…
Tonight the NBC Nightly News doggedly began its broadcast with a report from the levees of New Orleans at the onset of hurricane season rather than where CBS and ABC began: with the Haditha massacre and the European-U.S. coalition visavis…
Unfortunately I had to dig my camera out of my knapsack so this is not face-on, but I am 90, 95 percent that the guy in the middle of this picture with the hat is our guy—