2000-2009: Let’s Break it Down (Epilogue)
Sean MurphySo, the recent discussion of the Top 50 albums of the last decade was supposed to end, as it began, with a sampling of songs. The introductory entry covered 2000-2004;…
Oh, and reducing the debt, too.
An ostensibly rhetorical question I read (and get asked) quite often these days is "Why bother?" Why bother getting invested in politics? Why bother reading all those papers and blogs…
Did You Get The Knack?
Look at that guy. You know which one I'm talking about. You've got three surfer dude boys in the band and the frontman with the thousand yard smirk. You know that…
Charles Krauthammer is an Immoral Cretin
First, let's try to get a handle on what constitutes the GOP braintrust as it's currently constructed. In short, it's sort of like the Three Stooges. No really. First, you…
She’s Got Her Whole World In Her Hand
Sarah Palin has officially out-cliched cliche. You can no longer even use the lazy --if entirely accurate and appropriate-- depictions like "jumped the shark" or "stranger than fiction" or "a…
For J.D. Salinger, Jethro Tull and Me
She nodded. "Make it extraordinarily squalid and moving," she suggested. "Are you at all acquainted with squalor?" I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it,…
A Combination of Santa Claus, Superman and Peter Pan
When I was growing up, Larry Bird was by far my favorite athlete. His capacity for heroics, it often seemed, was limitless. I've celebrated that love affair here and here.…
Why Dogs Rule, Redux
From Sigourney Weaver's "What You've Learned" feature in December's Esquire: I volunteered to serve food to the workers at Ground Zero after 9/11. There were dogs trained to find living…
I’m In Love!
I'm in love! No, not really. But I am in love with this movie (Sunshine Cleaning), the writer (Megan Holley) and especially the two leading ladies, Amy Adams and Emily…