On a sad note, famed Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti passed away yesterday from pancreatic cancer. He was seventy-one.
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On Michael Vick
I don’t follow football, and though I knew Michael Vick’s name from years of selling Madden for the various and sundry game consoles, I wouldn’t have known Vick if he’d walked up to me. I couldn’t even have told you what team he played for. I’ve said nothing about the court case involving Vick. OrContinue reading “On Michael Vick”
On Mike Wieringo
Comic book artist Mike Wieringo died suddenly over the weekend. He was 44. Wieringo and I shared a birthday — June 24th. Not something I knew until today. Jack Dempsey, I knew that one. But not Mike Wieringo. I was familiar with Wieringo’s work only glancingly. I’d stopped reading The Flash not long before WieringoContinue reading “On Mike Wieringo”
On Karl Rove’s Upcoming Departure
First draft of history time — senior Presidential advisor Karl Rove will be resigning his post come the end of August. The President won’t have Turdblossom — Bush’s nickname for Rove — to kick around any more. I wish I could write that “It doesn’t surprise me to see Rove leave,” but I’d be lying.Continue reading “On Karl Rove’s Upcoming Departure”
On John Gardner
The novelist John Gardner, author of the James Bond novels of the ’80s and ’90s and two novels about Professor Moriarty, passed away about a week ago, on August 3rd. He was 80. Apparently, he had been in ill-health for about a year, suffering a mild stroke earlier in the year. I wouldn’t call GardnerContinue reading “On John Gardner”
On Getting Rid of Gonzales
On Monday I received an e-mail—as I often do—from John Edwards’ presidential campaign. They were putting together a petition to send to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and they wanted signatures. But it wasn’t an ordinary petition. The petition would come on a copy of the United States Constitution. For each signature, the Edwards campaign wouldContinue reading “On Getting Rid of Gonzales”
On Really Stupid People
I think it goes without saying—calling in a bomb threat to bring a plane back to the gate because you missed your flight is a very stupid idea. It’s a federal crime. It’s going to scare people. It’s going to inconvenience people. It will land you in jail. So, of course, on Wednesday a manContinue reading “On Really Stupid People”
On CIA Leak News
Two interesting pieces of news regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak case–that being that case that lead to Scooter Libby’s conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice, a conviction that President Bush commuted because, frankly, he was probably concerned that Scooter would flip on Cheney or Rove–emerged yesterday. First, the civil lawsuit filed by PlameContinue reading “On CIA Leak News”
On Steven Weber's Opinion
The actor Steven Weber, best known for his role on the sitcom Wings, weighed in recently on Paris Hilton. It is one of the… strangest opinions I’ve ever read. I couldn’t put a sentence together like that. Well, okay, maybe if I’ve been drinking really hard. Here’s an example: [S]he is like one of thoseContinue reading “On Steven Weber's Opinion”
On the Stomach
Sunday evening my parents and I took my grandmother to her favorite restaurant for dinner, Bullock’s. It’s a family restaurant out near Westminster. The place has a buffet. The buffet table is a covered wagon. It uses a yellow fluorescent tube. Food looks… well, not like food… under the yellow light. There’s a model trainContinue reading “On the Stomach”