Jon Stewart used to be funny. I don’t mean on MTV. I mean on HBO. He played a slightly fictionalized version of himself during the last season or two of The Larry Sanders Show—as of 2014, the second-best television show ever made—and he was very good. Of course, he’s most known for The Daily Show … Read more
“No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.” – Barack Obama, September 23, 2009 I was reminded of that stupefyingly naive comment, from Obama’s first address to the United Nations, in Dr. Krauthammer’s recent column on our current state of foreign affairs. Our esteemed president is not such a fan of American … Read more
Day one of Lenten vegetarianism went swimmingly. I have more options at Anaheim Chili than I realized. This is a good thing. I think I’ll have to stay out of Vietnamese and Thai places for the most part, though. They tend to head for the tofu on vegetarian dishes, and I don’t like tofu. Anyone … Read more