Category: long story short

  • That time again

    It’s as good a time as any to do another week in review: Monday I finally closed out my February files, deposited some checks, and then met my editor, Pete Gaughan, for a lunch on the sidewalk outside Arizmendi (pizza in the sun, yea! it almost made me feel like I had kicked this cold)…

  • test

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  • A code in my doze

    On Monday my throat felt scratchy and I had a sinus drip. By Tuesday it was a full-blown cold. It’s almost as if my body scheduled its next breakdown for the precise end of the California primary season. I voted for my candidate but, as he had already withdrawn from the race, he of course…

  • John Kerry’s first true test

    IMDB.com reports that Chevy Chase and Jon Voight will be starring in an upcoming film called “The Karate Dog.” But wait: The Karate Kid’s Pat Morita co-stars. But wait: It’s from the director of Baby Geniuses. And the writer of The Million Dollar Kid, which was that rarest of rare flowers: a Corey Feldman /…

  • Primary’s end

    Just a quick note as we end this primary season: Whatever happens from here on out, this is a primary that truly tested the nominee and left him and the party far stronger than they were when the process started up. Too many times over the last several years, it’s felt like the Democratic Party…

  • Tonight’s Democratic party primary debate…

    …was as eloquent an argument as you’re going to see for keeping the 2%ers out of at least the final primary debates. Dennis and Al are smart guys with a lot of interesting points to make, but really, right now, for just a minute or two, I was wishing they’d both shut up so I…