George Saunders: This Is His Time
Sean MurphyEarlier this month, the New York Times magazine featured the guy pictured above in a cover story entitled "George Saunders Has Written The Best Book You'll Read This Year". Check it out here. Who is…
Richard Cohen, Charles Krauthammer, Salon.com and Me
Props to Salon.com for doing some heavy lifting in the service of exposing hackery this week, courtesy of their amusing --and recommended-- "Hack Thirty" feature. In a mild upset, they…
She’s Got Her Whole World In Her Hand
Sarah Palin has officially out-cliched cliche. You can no longer even use the lazy --if entirely accurate and appropriate-- depictions like "jumped the shark" or "stranger than fiction" or "a…
A Half-Assed Howard Beale or, The Crocodile Tears of a Clown
Right now Paddy Chayefsky is: a. Rolling over in his grave b. High-fiving Peter Finch in heaven c. High-fiving Peter Finch in hell (where it's Happy Hour 24/7) d. All…