Just two weekends ago, on May 3, 2009, The Fantasticks held a 50th Anniversary Reunion for alumni and friends in New York and I was part of the celebration. This musical icon opened on May 3rd, 1960 at the 152 seat Sullivan Street Theater off-Broadway. It closed forty-two years later in… Read full post »

The story, being referred to as “The Bethesda Incident,” is just now emerging, several weeks after the fact. It is a chilling reminder of the high stakes bullshit game that is global warming, where ideologues rule.

The facts are these. Anticipating President Obama’s intention to go… Read full post »

Taking a moment off from political and cultural observations to recount an incident today at Costco.

There's a deliciously ironic symmetry to it,  or maybe, conversely, a straight-up asymmetry.  I'll let readers judge for themselves.

Arriving in the Costco lot,  my wife and I were wait… Read full post »

I was on the road filming a trailer yesterday and one of my fellow actors had a copy of The Washington Post.  A story there caught my eye.

It seems that  the California Air Resources Board wants to legislate against black cars starting in 2012 because it requires so much energy… Read full post »

A story out of Indiana speaks of the UAW's attempt to organize a union for a company of fifty employees, who live in a small town, and who all were basically friendly with one another.

The organizing attempt was through Card Check, a labor bill that is being pushed by… Read full post »

to say the equivalent regarding Obama's economic policies?

Where is our Daniel Hannan?

Quietly and with great secrecy the administration has called in the services of the International Metaphysical Psychic Society, or IMPS,  to investigate the possibility that the President's teleprompter is haunted.

No one will admit that IMPS representatives are on the scene, but a White House… Read full post »

Sorry I haven't commented on friends (and others) posts, but I've been computerless, or barely accessible to one, for the past four days and for two more because I got a part on a TV series called Army Wives and am in Charleston shooting it.  And left my laptop at home.… Read full post »

So went that wonderful FedEx commercial where two guys in a mail room thought they were DOOMED!  They really weren't.  But we are.

OBAMA:  Uh, you know, I -- I -- I have more than enough to do, uh, without having to worry about the financial system.

You'll… Read full post »

Speaking from the steps of the Church Of the Divine Government, President Obama has announced his ambitious plan for Universal Hotel Care.  This single-payer hotel care bill would guarantee every American an affordable hotel room or suite in any city in the United States, with no co-pay.  T… Read full post »

 Here come de judge.

 

   Justice Brandeis in Olmstead v. United States in 1928  

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial.  Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel in… Read full post »

Remember Urkel, the wacky, destructive neighbor nerd on Family Matters?

He's back.  In the White House.  Leading the country.  The Charles In Charge, the Andy Richter Controlling the Universe, our Nanny, Father Knows Best,  the Benson of the Beltway.  We all know Who's the… Read full post »

                                                        In a stunning announcement, Pope Benedict has declared that he will make Barack Obama a saint, glo… Read full post »

 I took some time off from a script deadline to watch a Tivo of last Wednesday's Law and Order and it got me thinking about  masculinity.  So before I get back to work, I wanted to put those thoughts into some order.

The story was about the unnecessary death of a consentual…

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I had a choice last night. 

I was doing my stand up and hosting the early show at Goodnight's Comedy Club in Raleigh with Crank Yanker Jim Florentine as the headliner.  The green room had a television, which was tuned in to the Oscars.

I managed to catch Hugh Jackman… Read full post »

There are three --  no, four people I wanted to be when I was a kid:  Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Ted Williams and Gene Kelly.

Oh, I flirted occasionally with Joe DiMaggio, James Cagney, Steve Van Buren, Johnny Lujack and a few others, but those were my top four.

Favorite movie… Read full post »

It's Oscar time and I'm happy to see that James Marsh’s wonderful documentary Man On Wire,  has been nominated. 

This documentary follows Phillipe Petit’s extraordinary wirewalk thirty-four years ago between the two rooftops of the now destroyed twin towers of the World Trade C… Read full post »

And thank all you Senate Democrats. 

Rahm Emanuel was right.  Our economic crisis IS too good to waste and Harry Reid didn't waste a moment wasting it.

You all know what I'm talking about, don't you?  Of course.  

It's the two billion (aproximate) for that mag-lev rail… Read full post »

When my dad, who immigrated from Italy, legally, made me walk the streets with him during election time, ringing doorbells for Truman and Stevenson, he repeated a mantra I never forgot and eventually believed in:  "The Repubicans are the party of the rich, the Democrats are the party of the work… Read full post »

It's not because he's a Republican, because I don't think he is. 

So the question for me remains, "Why was Letterman so mean?"

I didn't see the Joachim Phoenix appearance until the videos  the next day and  I was as mystified by it as everyone else.

At first… Read full post »

It's Valentine's Day, or close to it.  Aa very good excuse to talk about love and its companion, marriage.

I'm all for it.  Love and marriage.  Valentines Day is a catalyst for a discussion of same sex marriage.  Proposition 8 is again back in everyone's consciousness.  That… Read full post »

When P.T. Barnum said that, and he may not have,  he must have had Congress  in mind.  

Lord Obama Himself said he wouldn't sign a bill that hadn't had at least five days transparancy for vetting.  

Yet the stimulus bill was printed at Midnight last night.  Voted upon tod… Read full post »

I've been reading a number of comments on this site ridiculing Republican's unwillingness to be bipartisan, as the God Obama and his disciples Nancy and Harry requested.  They've been called obstrucionists, greedy, hateful, despicable -- you know, all those measured, well examined, thoughtful de… Read full post »

FYI

In the stimulus bill, a few billion bucks are being set aside to create a commission to determine what treatments and/or drugs will or won't be authorized because of their cost and effectiveness.

We will then have a list of treatments  and drugs that are cost-effective to the government.&nbs… Read full post »

From Senator Tom Coburn on the Senate floor yesterday.

"The biggest earmark in history is in this bill. There is $2 billion in this
bill to build a coal plant with zero emissions. That would be great, maybe,
if  we had the technology, but the greatest brains in the… Read full post »