Gore Vidal talk is heating up the Internet! This is exciting news. I’ve never paid much attention to the guy, honestly. I’ve always enjoyed this particular G.V. quote, though: It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. By all recent accounts, the G-Man sounds like he has totally flipped his wig (if that weren’t already the...
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Don’t look now, but it’s List Time! (Lists abound at the end/beginning of every year, in case you live in a cave and didn’t know.)  Below is my little contribution to the literary scorekeeping process — my favorite books from the past decade.  Arts and Entertainment If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, by...
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This Michael Moore! He is some kind of big thinker! I cannot wrap my gosling mind around his thickness. His weight. He is light! Important American Michael Moore is delivering messages. He is broadcasting sunshine to cavernous mulch. He is a prime-time soul. Michael Moore’s radiance lets me know that His America is the Correct One....
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Via the Wiki Men: Niagara is an Iroquois word that means “thundering waters.” Via the City of Niagara Web site: Niagara combines the ultimate outdoor recreational pleasure with the industrial support you need to succeed. Located within the Iron Mountain/Kingsford urban area, 90 miles north (1 1/2 hours) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Niagara offers a unique...
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You gotta love the new Israeli Prime Minister (who is actually the former P.M. as well). In an interview with The Atlantic he does America a great service by helping us set our priorities. I don’t know about you, but I have been confused as what we might do to bail the water out...
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A few posts back, I linked to a story that characterizes my town, Portland, as the unhappiest place in America. A few thoughts on that, gang. It’s funny to read such a story, especially when nearly every unkempt indie rocker in the universe views our little corner of hell as some paradisiacal aerie. But the...
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In a recent article at SLATE, Christopher Hitchens writes: A nuclear conflict with Israel would be—in a grimly literal sense—the very last thing that (Iran) would embark upon. Second, and even taking into account the officially messianic and jihadist rhetoric of the regime, it remains the case that a thermonuclear weapon detonated on the Zionist...
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Apparently I’m not capable of sleeping, so I’ll scream into the blogging abyss. This will ensure that, you too, suffer. A few things; a scattered bunch of thought shards: *Why is Christopher Hitchens kicking it with Sean Penn? A strange pairing, to be sure — particularly because Hitchens doesn’t suffer such dreary stupidfaces gladly — and...
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