Larry Hankin, once upon a time of The Committee.
And, bang, shoot me, this is our Congress.
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Gold-Plated Ugg Boots
December 28th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
The Last Laugh
December 27th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
even thinking the word Dell makes me shudder
You’d think the New York Times, of all places, er, people—whatever—ain’t they sposed to be suave sophisticates?
The problem is—and I mean this is the problem—Luddites and lunkheads, students of the John S. McCain school of keyboard learning, do not understand the least thing about computers—and kids do not run the New York Times.
Though the Times may wish it were so, after a certain presidential election.
And writers of New York Times Blogs, who would no more drive, say, a Ford Taurus, are perfectly comfy falling off tech turnip trucks, repeatedly. Read the rest of this entry »
See No Evil
December 20th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
Our Larry Who Art In Heaven
Doc Searls: This has turned Google, a private company with no accountability to any constituency, into a negotiating partner of national governments whose laws or policies do not reflect or respect the ethical stance claimed in Google’s own slogan. Thus, Google now functions on a diplomatic level
Ghastly thought. Not sure I want two grad students with a big plane …
… with the ability and clout to forge country-by-country compromises affecting internet activity and the free flow of information and opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
As I Write This Letter
December 11th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
… what middle aged cranky beatle fan it was who wrote it.
John Lennon replies. 1969.
I was reading your letter and wondering what middle aged cranky beatle fan it was who wrote it. I resisted looking at the the last page to find out. I kept thinking who it was, Queenie? Stuart’s mother? Clive Epstein’s wife? Alan Williams? What the hell, its Linda!
Wot the hell, it’s Linda! Read the rest of this entry »
The Center of The Hip World
December 3rd, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
The most fabulous shoes she had ever seen …
For some time now, certain Boulder-ites of my acquaintance have been arguing the case for their … town? is Boulder a town? … being the center of the hip world. Or is it hippie. I am confused. But aren’t we all … the adrenaline crash, well, let us just respect that adrenaline is a powerful, powerful drug. Kindness starts with the self.
But you can see how stressful this has been, living through a Historic Moment and all. People are handing the let down in all different ways. Some are listless, some depressed. Some are in wonder that Arianna can go on—I notice more celebrity crap turning up on her front page every day—but wasn’t the Huff Po the perfect vehicle at the perfect moment. Read the rest of this entry »
The Road To Hell
September 20th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
Back when the subject was Eliot Spitzer’s misbegotten cock, E.J. Graff wrote in Talking Points Memo:
“I’m a little sickened to read that paying thousands of dollars for sex is all about buying a ‘positional good’ … the point of paying $5500 for sex isn’t that it gives you better-than-ordinary sex, but rather, that the cost itself makes it *higher status* than buying your way into a lower-cost vagina.”
Sometimes you take a note, save a draft … What makes it sit there, unpublished? Read the rest of this entry »
"Palin Would Support War With Russia"
September 12th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
… has she, personally ever been to this alleged island from which Russia may or may not be seen?
There it was, big as life, front page headline in the San Francisco Chronicle today.
Hell-o? I think somebody just took a Giant Step towards handing the election back to Obama.
Anyone—anyone in their right mind—wants war with Russia? Read the rest of this entry »
The Shadow Knows
September 11th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
…a terrible fear of living under the “governance” of a failed beauty queen
A friend sent this from a MySpace blog:
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that.
I’m not here to argue, but hello, no sometimes about that.
This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice …Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Read the rest of this entry »