Barack Obama
Movie Review: One October
By Jack Silbert on May 19, 2018
4 stars out of 5 Watch on-demand By the time Clay Pigeon arrived at WFMU circa 2007 or so, I was already a longtime listener to the station. I started to notice his name on the schedule (“Huh, that’s a funny name”), but as a Manhattan working stiff, I never really got a chance to […]
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In Defense of Clint Eastwood’s Chair
By Jack Silbert on September 1, 2012
I didn’t watch the Republican National Convention on Thursday. I didn’t watch it on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday either. I’m a registered Democrat and a card-carrying liberal and though I like to think of myself as very open-minded, I’m fairly set in my ways politically speaking. But as I got home from a concert Thursday […]
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Meanwhile, in New Jersey
By Jack Silbert on February 6, 2008
Hillary Clinton emerged victorious in the Garden State’s primary today. Apparently her people are pointing to their strong showing among NJ’s Hispanic voters (because who speaks more directly to the Latino community than an uptight white woman in an ill-fitting pantsuit). But I’m guessing I know the true reason: The junior Senator from New York […]
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