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Hillary Clinton is angry! And it’s not at George Bush, or terrorists, or even her increasingly Falstaffian husband! No, it’s at Barack Obama! And not because Barack’s the frontrunner and is on the cusp of rendering worthless Hillary’s last 2-9 years of work (depending on how you’re counting!)! No! It’s […]

Wow, I’ve written hundreds of punchlines about this week’s events….
….and you don’t get any.  Not until tonight, anyway.  That’s one of the Catch-22’s about this job - my vocation is eating my avocation’s lunch.
But here you go - some fresh comment space to get you all into the weekend.  How about that “Times” article? What […]

The internet just got a whole lot cuter.  I don’t know why, until now, nobody realized that the worldwide web could be used to pass people “links” to go to other “pages” where they could find cute things to goggle at.  But I’m going to get the ball rolling.
I give you Hugo, on ToddlerTube!
Yes, that’s […]

BREAKING — In a sign that the strike really IS over, writer Matt Price announced today that he is lifting his media blackout. It’s been a long 3 months, and this news has got to come as a great relief to fans of both Matt Price and the Matt Price Media Blackout (though I’m […]

I’ll be updating this periodically today, but I wanted to get my essential message out as quickly as possible:
If you’re in the Writers Guild - vote tomorrow. Honestly. Don’t assume it will work out right. Vote.
And if you’re both in the Writers Guild and you live in Maryland or Virginia, well, you’re […]

First, my congratulations to Mitt Romney. Many candidates lose because they fail to get voters’ attention, others because their policies are out of step with their party’s voters, still others because their competition is too fierce and charismatic. Mitt might be the first candidate to lose simply because so many of his colleagues […]

Or, in my case, “go fourth and vote.”  I have errands.  But its on my list.
Still, I thought I’d supply you all with some fresh paper to discuss today’s events.

Barack Obama.
There it is. I’m going to vote for him in the primary. Barack Obama.
I wish I could say that this is solely because of Obama’s positives, but this morning I woke up and realized that my choice was cinched by some negatives. I can’t go for Hillary for one of […]