Posts Tagged with "Kennedy"

Okay, still busted….

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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…but I have faith that it will be fixed eventually, so here I am with some random thoughts: 1) I celebrated the Cardinals’ victory in the World Series with a bottle of Veuve-Clicquot. The trick to not becoming a lush is to cultivate sufficiently expensive tastes. 2) I celebrated Halloween at The Aero, a theater [...]

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A few words about RFK

Monday, June 5, 2006

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Today is the 38th anniversary of the day Bobby Kennedy got shot–no, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, Slate reminded me. I thought I’d take a short break from revising Sophomore to share some thoughts. I come by my Kennedy assassination fetish honestly: My mother was raised Catholic, and my seldom-seen father died when I [...]

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History’s greatest bullies?

Friday, May 5, 2006

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In the wake of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen calling satirist Stephen Colbert “a bully,” Jon and I started wondering: is Colbert the biggest bully in history? Probably. But being believers in the democratic process, we decided to assemble a list and leave the choice to you. 1. Charlie Chaplin attacks a defenseless Hitler (1937)Anybody [...]

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Just finished watching “RFK,” a PBS documentary…

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

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…on PBS, and I’m a little raw, since that story always upsets me a great deal. But I thought since I had a blog I’d write to you how the show made me feel. I was born in 1969, almost one year exactly after Robert Kennedy was shot dead while campaigning for President, and I [...]

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My annual trip back into the thick historical gruel…

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

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…of the JFK assassination has begun, courtesy of The History Channel’s latest installment of the British documentary series, “The Men Who Killed Kennedy.” I only caught the last two of the three–the ones that could be boiled down to: 1) Don’t date Lee Harvey Oswald; and 2) Don’t fuck around with LBJ. Did anyone see [...]

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A Talk with Mort Sahl

Monday, August 25, 2003

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Just read an interview with satirist Mort Sahl, still pissed off at age 76. He’s always been right on the beam about the Kennedy assassination, the canary in the coal mine; I’m not talking specifics, I’m talking about knowing that something was fishy and politicized and “spun.” And it wasn’t simply JFK-worship, either: He got [...]

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Barry’s Long March…

Thursday, November 21, 2002

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…is proving much more pleasant than Mao’s. Editor Simon revealed today that my mongrel will be at #7 in the London Sunday Times list this Sunday. Yowsa! While emceeing the National Book Awards, Steve Martin got off a good line or two. While presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Phillip Roth, he quipped, “If he’s [...]

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