December 2007
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Les Moonves
In entertainment news: Nikki Finke at deadlinehollywooddaily.com finally catches up with my suggestion that it might be a good idea to test management’s solidarity (“a reasonable template,” 11/16). And the president of CBS is now, by all indications, a black male. So why isn’t the prime time schedule more diversified?
I hate cyclists
Cyclists in Topanga Canyon are very aggressive, demanding to be treated like vehicles…if vehicles rode four abreast on winding mountain roads and flipped you off for so much as toot-tooting that you’d please like to pass on a straightaway. Slower traffic is supposed to use turnouts–there are signs posted everywhere. I use them all the […]
Bowie Kuhn, Hall of Famer
The veterans committee seems to have clamped down and made it harder for players to get in, ever since Mazeroski somehow slipped by them. So Santo, Hodges, and Torre remain out. In the meantime, they’ve adjusted the rules to make it easier for executives and pioneers, and the committee has gone hog wild honoring its […]
Foul!
Connie Hawkins was one of my two favorite basketball players of all time. He landed with the Lakers after squandering his talents with the Globetrotters and then in the old ABA, followed by a great run with the Phoenix Suns. By the time, he got here, the Hawk was still capable of dominating games in […]
Don Rickles
I just watched the doumentary about him on HBO. More people talking about how funny he was than footage of him actually being funny. Plenty of clips of cheap sentiment though. I guess I’m not his biggest fan, although it is impressive how many famous people have championed him, from Frank Sinatra to Jackie Gleason […]
Salt in Wound never sleeps
My 10-year old son Keenan made this joke based closely on our actual daily commuting experience: Two people were riding down a bike path when they saw the intersection ahead was blocked by a giant vehicle with tinted windows. One said to the other, “Should we go in front of it or behind it?”The other […]
Et Tu, Murtha?
So by now I’m sure you’re all aware that we’re winning the war in Iraq. No, really, it’s as good as won actually. The surge is working. Troop fatalities dropped to under 40 in October as well as November, the lowest monthly totals since March of ’06.* And those totals each represent nearly a 75% […]
canned laughter
This morning, my nine year-old daughter Isa aired a complaint about her math class from the back of the car: “They’re all craving laughter so badly, they’ll laugh even when the teacher makes the teensiest mistake, then they’ll all laugh luxuriously, like that was so funny. And I’m thinking if they’re craving laughter so badly, […]
speaking of democrat-on-democrat violence
No one’s worse for the party than this guy. Rahm Emanuel doesn’t want us to talk about Iraq, impeachment, the Constitution, anything that separates us from the Republicans. The only way in his mind to beat them is to act as indistinguishable as possible and maybe trick people into voting for us. He won’t be […]
Jack Silbert, curator