NOTE: It’s clear to me that Garrison Keillor doesn’t like to be profound, at least not when he’s performing. He starts off writing or doing a monologue, following the curves and turns of a narrative, striving for a seamless whimsy. Then something big & weighty abruptly rolls like a boulder onto his path — interruptions … Continue reading Living As Well As We Can In Spite of Them Is the First Revenge
Will Paul McCartney still be on stage at 90? I bet he will try: Beatles biographer HUNTER DAVIES on a tear-jerking performance from a living legend By HUNTER DAVIES FOR THE DAILY MAIL 26 June 2022. When he started his Glastonbury set, tightly buttoned up in a stiff high-collared, old-fashioned jacket, hardly moving his body at … Continue reading Paul McCartney at 80: A Great Gig, Not A Hard Day’s Night – And Even A Cheer for Ukraine
Excerpts from the dissent by justices: Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor. (Some emphasis has been added.) After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had. The majority accomplishes that result without so much as considering how women have relied on the right to choose or … Continue reading Eloquence Exemplified In Dissent: Courting the Post-Roe Future
The Day of the Dobbs Decision was Also: “Susan Collins Was A Fool & A Sucker Day” After an authentic draft of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision striking down Roe v Wade and federally upheld abortion rights, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins was on the media hot seat: after all, she had claimed to be … Continue reading The Other Name for June 24: Susan Collins . . .
The one newspaper headline I wrote that I don’t have a copy of (but wish I did) hit the streets of Boston in midsummer of 1972, just after the Democratic National Convention. It read: “Why McGovern Can’t Lose.” [For those not of a certain age, Senator George McGovern had just been nominated for president. He … Continue reading They Proved Me Wrong