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[W]hy shouldn’t we think that the Iraq war has increased terrorism in the world, or at least the risk of it? The hornet’s nest analogy is apt, albeit clichéd. We were stung — and stung badly — well before the Iraq war. And after the multiple stings of 9/11 we decided to take the fight […]
I was sitting in a meeting with entertainment lawyers on Friday, and being a “creative type” I, of course, let my mind wander. Specifically, to this. It’s not that big a deal, in a sense: we knew all along this is what happened regarding post-war planning in Iraq. But there’s something so evilly intentional about […]
Ron Suskind’s new book, “The One Percent Doctrine,” explores Vice President Dick Cheney’s view that if there’s a 1 percent chance terrorists might detonate a nuclear bomb in an American city, the government must act as if there’s a 100 percent chance. Despite the guffawing this elicited from administration critics, it strikes me as eminently […]
Nash, the famous author of comic verse, used to be pitied by his lit’ry friends because reviewers used to always try to replicate his style in their reviews, viz:
Mr. Ogden Nash has a new book
And I think it’s quite worth a look
Consider, for example, this book review from today’s New York Times. The reviewer, […]
My husband Bruno and I don’t have children, but we go and see each and every Pixar movie anyway. They’re good, and in LA, you never know when you’re going to run into John Ratzenberger socially.
Bruno liked “Cars.” It was zippy, and all the cars were actual cars, he tells me, each a cunning reference […]
Fanny Roborat
