I’m still trying to figure out on just exactly what issues the Republicans really intend to run on for the presidency? The latest AP poll shows George W. Bush once again at an all time low of a 32% favorability rating — with vast majorities opposing every major policy he embodies. On the issue of [...]

For some of us, this is the longest week. The countdown till next Sunday at 6pm seems unbearable. Life without The Sopranos seems totally absurd (with a nod to JP Sartre). I can’t even imagine what it will feel like. I haven’t been this addicted to a TV show since I was a kid and [...]

The ten presidential candidates of the GOP have finished their latest debate – this time in New Hampshire—and once again, as the case last time, the winner is…The Democrats. If the DNC had enough good sense, they’d bankroll the Republican Presidential Debates as a weekly, roving, televised Chautauqua. I mean, what more could a Democratic [...]

I saw Knocked Up the other night and frankly loved it.  Loved it so much that last night I went out and bought director Judd Apatow’s  The 40 Year Old Virgin on DVD, watched it, and liked it just as much or more. Thought both were very funny and very smart. For a dissenting view, [...]

It seems patently clear by now that absolutely nothing is going to shift in U.S.  war policy in Iraq until September. That’s the mythical date that has been chosen for some sort of reckoning on the surge — and therefore on the war itself. Republican congressmembers want to break with current policy in time for [...]

Sunday was a depressing night TV-wise.  Not only did half the Soprano family get massacred, but Hillary Clinton also escaped the latest Democratic debate unscathed. For sure the Sopranos penultimate episode got a much larger slice of the audience pie than the CNN debate from New Hampshire. Yes, yes, it’s still “early on” — as [...]