Yesterday I tried to explain as carefully as I could why I am almost certainly voting for President Bush. The NY Times, whose editorial board endorsed Kerry yesterday, is concerned about Kerry’s Mary Cheney remark in the final debate: a single remark by Mr. Kerry, noting that Vice President Dick …

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Jon Stewart appeared on CNN’s Crossfire with Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala last week (as part of his book tour, I am certain), and rather than being either a serious discussion of Stewart’s view of the candidates or the process, or a funny discussion of the same, it was rather …

And as a result, who are you voting for?

I sheepishly admit I have never learned to whistle with my fingers. I can whistle rather melodiously using the puckered lips method, but no ear-bleeding “HEY, PAY ATTENTION!!” penetrator with my fingers. I think that’s the kind of thing you either learn by about 13 or it isn’t going to …

Speaking of bad weeks – how about a bad life? Does anyone think the world wouldn’t be a better place if Mark David Chapman had never been born? The transcript of Mark Chapman’s recent parole hearing was released yesterday. It’s very sad: John Lennon’s killer Mark Chapman shot the former …

First, MJ is sincerely not digging the new Eminem video, wherein Em, masquerading as the King of Pop, undergoes various indignities and ends by chasing his nose around the dance floor. Jackson complained about it publicly and asked the cable stations not to show it. Only BET complied with the …

I have very mixed feelings about a forthcoming “live theater production” at the Mirage in Las Vegas by Cirque du Soleil featuring Beatles music. I mean building a Vegas show around Celine Dion is one thing, or musicals around Billy Joel or ABBA songs, but can a bunch of painted, …

In my SoCal childhood, the whole family always looked forward to trips down to Mexico, whether just down to Ensenada, or down to San Felipe on the Gulf of California, or wherever (never gross Tijuana), and I was particularly fascinated by the ready availability of gritty products frowned upon in …

A few days ago we mentioned the mysterious and labrynthine case of the seized IndyMedia hard drives. Now they have reappeared: The media group said it had verified that the hard drives returned on 13 October were the ones actually taken in the raid. With the help of the cyber-liberties …