One of Jerry Seinfeld’s early bits was about the sense of detachment you feel riding in the back of a cab—as if you’re not in the car, and the risks the driver takes aren’t also risks of your well-being. We act like it’s all just happening on television. “Boy, that looked dangerous. I wouldn’t try … Read more
It wasn’t long after our esteemed president was reelected that I began imagining the candidate for whom the country would be ready in 2016. The person wouldn’t have to be overtly Reaganesque, necessarily, but the person would need his unapologetic love of country. We were starved for that in 1979, and we’re starved for it … Read more
Several years ago I answered the door one Halloween night, and one of the accompanying adults was a wife/mom about my age, or maybe a year or two younger, from down our street. She was wearing a good Wonder Woman costume. And it fit her very well. I don’t remember managing to get anything witty out. … Read more