Archive | November, 2004

Anonymous Defends the Weather Underground

28 November 2004

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Some readers might remember a post I made a while back after watching “The Weather Underground,” a documentary on the radical group of the late 60s-early 70s. Yesterday, an anonymous reader sent this comment: “If you weren’t there you couldn’t possibly understand. How bad were the Weathermen as compared to a coke snorting, draft dodging [...]

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Terry Southern interview

28 November 2004

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Hello again! Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving. Through friend Dennis Perrin’s brand-spankin’-new blog, I discovered a very interesting interview with writer/avatar of Hip Terry Southern. Southern is probably best known for his work with Stanley Kubrick on “Dr. Strangelove,” but he did a lot more than that–Easy Rider, the mega-selling dirty book “Candy,” some [...]

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More Weekend Update jokes…

23 November 2004

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For $9.99, computer users can now download a video game based on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, the game’s makers warn, no matter what they score, nobody will believe it. Or, “The best players will compete for a prize of $100,000 and a chance to be shot on live television.” This week, [...]

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This fight’s been going on for decades

22 November 2004

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To mark the 41st anniversary of his assassination, I thought I’d pass along a quote from JFK. It struck me when I read it, how similar the battle lines were, then and now. “If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone [...]

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Weekend Update style jokery, Day 1

22 November 2004

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Kate’s learning how to write jokes like the ones on SNL’s “Weekend Update,” and as a good husband (who used to write that kind of material), I agreed to comb the news and write what are called “set-ups,” the news bits that set up the punchline. Rather predictably, the old compulsion returned. I read ‘em [...]

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A nice thought

20 November 2004

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This morning, I had a great thought: What if there was such a thing as an unarmy, formed and maintained by societies to do the exact opposite of making war–a vast unarmy outfitted with lavishness and care, that did its work with the same kind of ever-vaulting precision and dedication that armies do theirs? Think [...]

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More election fraud…

19 November 2004

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As usual Bobharris.com is on the case. And for those of you interested in a cri de coeur regarding nice liberals, the wait is over.

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HL Mencken is like Oscar Wilde and Dorothy…

19 November 2004

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…Parker in that, if it’s apt and slightly ascerbic, it’s attributed to him. Bearing that in mind, I make no claims as to the provenance of this amusing quote, sent to me by friend Garry Goodrow: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner souls of the people. [...]

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Tom Tomorrow on "Red Vs. Blue"

14 November 2004

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This Modern World has a good post about the Red State Vs. Blue State paradigm. Tom, like myself, apparently grew up in Red States and now lives and works in a Blue one (New Haven, if memory serves, and God love him for it). His post–an answer to all the Red State liberals that write [...]

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My friend Harriet…

14 November 2004

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…has a lovely blog going. This, from her most recent post, were she disses Strawberry Shortcake: “Hydrocephalic imps who smell like bad room freshener were not, in my personal universe, conducive to what the early development experts call ‘imaginative play.’” Check Harriet out here.

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