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“If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.”

Posted in Hilary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Opinion, POST on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Whether or not Michelle Obama meant this as a swipe at Hillary Clinton or not (it seems as though she didn’t), the statement itself doesn’t really make sense. It it were true, then every single one of our former presidents was incapable of running the White House. In this country, households are run [...]

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Rescue Me from Saving Grace…

Posted in Denis Leary, Holly Hunter, Opinion, POST, Rescue Me, Saving Grace, women in Hollywood on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A few posts back, in my brief celebration of the new season of Rescue Me, I mentioned the dearth of strong female characters on TV and how Leary’s show, about an angry macho NYFD firefighter and “world famous pussy hound” consistently gives us the lion’s share of them.
I don’t mean “strong” in [...]

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Bada Bing, Bada Boom

Posted in Opinion, POST, The Sopranos finale on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

One of the tensest scenes I’ve ever watched, and what really happened? Carmela walks in, sits down and starts looking at the menu. AJ walks in and flops down. A man walks through the door and sits at the counter. Meadow can’t parallel park her car to save her life. A couple [...]

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NASA’s Exit Strategy

Posted in Gregg Easterbrook, Michael Griffin, NASA, NPR, Opinion, POST on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

When I was little I had a disturbing recurring dream. I was with my parents, and my little sister and brother. Suddenly, the four of them broke away and started heading for a rocket ship. They were leaving me behind. I tried to catch up, but it was one of those situations where no [...]

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