There’s a great New York Italian expression called “ungatz.” If you’ve got ungatz, you’ve got nothing — you’re whistling Dixie. Jewish New York will know this as “bupkis.” Ungatz is the perfect word to use in a poker game when staring down another player. “This guy’s betting like he’s Johnny Chan,” you might say, “but I’m […]
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News from a Five-Year-Old
Completely out of the blue: “Vag-ina! Va-gina! Va-gina and Pedis make one big happy family!” Our school seems to be doing an excellent job — or that little rat at camp. Am I off the hook?
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These days, I welcome almost any expression of bi-partisanship in Washington, even if it’s cheap grandstanding that accomplishes almost nothing. In today’s offering, proud Americans across the political spectrum are busying themselves expressing righteous outrage over something we can all agree on: U.S. Olympians should not be wearing uniforms made in China. Reports the AP: Republicans […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Rolling Stones Turn 50
http://youtu.be/RrL_LZVbJ1M The Guardian has a story out today on the 50th Anniversary of The Rolling Stones’ first live performance. The story includes a link to this old newsreel video. It’s too good. You just have to watch it. All of it. It wasn’t just The Beatles that buckled the girls’ knees. http://youtu.be/CYwbkqGmeKw And 10 years later (1972). […]
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He just can help himself… http://youtu.be/zE6awsTpBO4?t=27s
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It does not seem that long ago that I’d spend summer afternoons sitting at my kitchen table scouring an actual paper copy of Newsday for baseball box scores and tracking this statistic and that. But it was. In fact, it was really long ago. This unhappy grim truth dawned on me tonight when I turned […]
Read the rest of this entry »My Take on Higgs Boson
I tried to get excited about the Higgs boson. I really did. I’m sure it’s a very big deal, and I know a lot of work went into finding the thing. But even with all its hype, I’m ashamed to admit, I just can’t get jazzed up about it. I hope that doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Out of Bounds, Dinesh
President Obama is on track to lose the election in November because his policies have failed and he is demonstrating an historic lack of leadership in the Oval Office. Cheap shots like the interview above with President Obama’s brother George from Kenya do not aid in the effort to remove the President from office. Mr. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Yet more on the law and politics of Obamacare
John Fabian Witt, a Yale law professor and law historian, wrote a fabulous and insightful piece for Balkaniztion.com that is a must-read on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling. (It’s so good that I am posting it now, even though it’s about a week old.) Based on Roberts’s training and intellectual lineage, Witt writes, “it should […]
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Alec Baldwin is at it again. The Hollywood hothead is thinking of running for mayor of New York for the nth time. This time Baldwin’s considerations are for real, though, “very real” his brother Billy Baldwin assured CNN this week. There’s just that temperament thing to consider. But “let me remind you that John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are quite the same,” the younger Baldwin explained […]
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