I suppose it's just me, but I can't help thinking that the difference between JFK's public persona and the private reality helped drive Nixon crazy. Or crazier. Like being the good, quiet, hard-working guy who consistently gets ignored in favor of the flashy sob everyone loves because he's good-looking and can tell…

Real weapons. I give it the Albert DeSalvo Award for population control.

If Chang were an arms dealer, the arms would be pickled and canned.

OMG! My life is complete, if only for a visit from my hero, IES Chang!
Now I'll watch the videos.

Dick Van Dyke wasn't busy.

Penguins—wrong direction, if you're going for igloos and northern icy things.

Except for demonizing the East Germans, which was a Disney invention—and pretty damned inappropriate. "There must be a villain"—bullshit.

Clint Eastwood got those already.

How odd. The headlines are almost as identifiable as Mr. O'Neal's prose style. I have been fooled once or twice by close copies, but an O'Neal headline is usually enough to get me to click on the article.

It's called "The Nannies," yes?

Ryan is a Rand disciple. What can you expect?

And then there's Texas, where all of us uninsured are just going to die.
Well, as one of Perry's friends said, it takes a lot of guts to kill an innocent man, so I guess Perry is the most courageous politician in the entire country.

I've often thought of Republicans, especially the Tea Partiers, as old stools, tough or otherwise.

It's been done. A young man needed to prove to his boss that he was responsible, not a playboy (oh, the '60s), so he convinced the aspiring actress who lived upstairs to play his wife to trick the boss. She used the fire escape to come and go; I remember that much. I think the actor's name was Michael Callan, and…

Saw it in the theatre and liked it a lot. Later bought the video so I could watch it when I wanted. Ridiculed for my support of it, especially by a young male co-worker who thought he was gods' gift to film commentary.
I absolutely love this review of Last Action Hero because now I know I'm not alone.
I like how…

Barbie is for amateurs. Tonner is the way.

And The Tall Guy. He's always got that.

Matthew McConaghey just got one of the best reviews I've ever seen in The New Yorker.

Tom Selleck? Errol Flynn?

Does she kill him when she's finished? Because I'd be okay with that.