In 2011, we missed our chance recently to do a column about Herman Cain, Citizen Kane and the fellow in the Columnists' Hall of Fame named Herb Caen.
If it is a far, far better thing to drop political punditry, then perhaps we should do a column comparing and contrasting
Were more people killed during the riots at the 1968 Republican convention or the 1968 Democratic convention? Our fact checking department says that two people were killed during the
We thought that next year's Republican Convention (as it was in 1968) would be held again in Miami, but upon further fact checking, we learned that it will be held in a Florida city where the Police Department has acquired a vast amount of military style equipment (just in case?).
Australians celebrate Christmas in their bathing suits at the beach. Do the Kiwis in
If, as we have been predicting, JEB Bush wins next year's Presidential Election, we don't intend on being the political punditry version of Hans Brinker. We will (like the tea bagger congressmen) accept Karl Rove's decisions and focus our columns on feature topics and not kvetching about the restoration chapter in the continuing saga of the Bush Dynasty.
We note with great sadness that George Whitman of the famed Paris bookstore "Shakespeare and Co." died recently. If, as we have been urging, the Existentialist Philosophers of Paris ever make up their minds to start work on the Nihilists' Hall of Fame, there should be a plaque with this bit of the philosophy of life from Treasure of the Sierra Madre: " Oh laugh, Curtin, old boy. It's a great joke played on us by the Lord, or fate, or nature, whatever you prefer. But whoever or whatever played it certainly had a sense of humor! Ha! The gold has gone back to where we found it!... This is worth ten months of suffering and labor - this joke is!"
Now the disk jockey (who dabbles in Existentialism himself) will play Duane Eddy's version of "Ghost Riders," the Rolling Stones' "contractual obligation album," and Edith Piaf's "Le vie en rose." We have to go buy a ticket for "The Wizard of Oz," which will be playing in
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