Have you ever noticed the way American beer commercials emphasize packaging gimmicks? The wide-mouth can. The label that turns blue […]
Month: April 2008
Hillama for President
“Hillary can’t win, and Obama can’t beat her.” This seems to be the bottom line in the endless slog toward […]
Britney Bashing Bottoms Out
I can’t believe I’m writing about Britney Spears, but bear with me. One would hope that Britney bottomed out somewhere […]
An Inconvenient Fee
I was reminiscing with my colleagues yesterday about the dawn of the ATM machine. We were remembering how, when banks […]
Getting There Without Directions
I can barely remember now, but before the age of MapQuest (and, subsequently, Google Maps), if I needed to go […]
Letter to the Editor, 1975
(to the editors at the New York Times) Dear Sir: An editorial in the Times, April 5, observes that “a […]
Hillary, I hardly knew ye
I want to like, Hillary Clinton. I really do. She’s an accomplished and well-regarded senator, and she’s the only First […]