Archive for the 'News' Category

It’s Okay, I’m a swinger!

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The controversy surrounding A-Rod dalliances with a tight-bodied, bleach blonde stripper seems to have subsided, at least for now. And he’s hitting, so all is well, at least for now.

But I’m still intrigued by the whole thing. Here’s the basic recap: Last Wednesday, The New York Post ran pictures of A-Rod with said blonde getting […]

I just don’t know anymore

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

So Tom Brady impregnates his girlfriend, then dumps her before because she wants to get married.

And now Peyton Manning is restructuring his contract to save the Colts money.

Nothing is right in the world.

Camus couldn’t have told it better

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Jenny the donkey coaxed from the woods

This story, if read symbolically, really strikes at the heart of the existential angst I’m experiencing today. I want to go the woods, just like Jenny the Donkey. And damn the “horse whisperers” who want to lure me into a snow cave (cubicle).

Patrick Ewing elected to Brooklyn council seat

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Knicks center, brother of Bowdoin graduate elected to New York City Council

Lost is the buzz surrounding Britney’s downfall, Denmark’s withdrawal from Iraq and Anna Nicole’s burial is the fact that former Knicks great Patrick Ewing has been elected to the New York City Council. And, it appears that a brother of a Bowdoin […]

Bracket Buster!!

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

It’s almost tournament time and I guess I’ll have to rework my preliminary bracket (I start filling mine out in July every year after speaking by phone with Mel Kiper Jr.) now that a Gonzaga player is being charged with felony drug possession after being caught with 33 grams of mushrooms.

Cinderalla won’t be […]

Franklin Pierce, I salute you

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Today is Presidents Day and as the New Yorker recently pointed out, “Presidents” (the spelling, without an apostrophe), implies that all presidents are to be honored.

Franklin Pierce, Bowdoin College class of 1824, is generally regarded as one of our nation’s worst presidents. His name is rarely spoken on campus, namely because the New Hampshire […]

On matters of the heart

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Happy Valentine’s Day . . .

I got into a conversation with a Jamie Lynn Sigler doppelanger the other night about what it would take, what conditions I would need, for Sienna Miller to fall for me. I said all it would really take is some isolation, that in effect, Miller would like she me if […]

A divergent news wrap

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Two interesting articles, each of a very different ilk.

First, Christina Aguilera reveals that she spends her Sundays naked. I’ve always had a little soft spot for Christina and with the way things have gone for Brittney and Jessica her stock has only risen. She’s really after my heart with this one. I’ve […]

Fear and loathing

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

The recent rhetoric on Iran is truly terrifying. President Bush said yesterday that he is “certain” Iran is providing weapons to Shiite militiamen and that these weapons have killed Americans.

The Iran stories are trickling out, but taken together are beginning to sound like a drumbeat. I just don’t know what they hell we’re going to […]

Torture works on “24″

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Fascinating article in this week’s New Yorker about the creator of “24″ and his views on torture

Jane Mayer reports that military officials recently met with the producers of “24″ to express concern about the way torture is depicted on the show. It seems people who have actually studied torture and other interrogations […]