We just got back from being in tonight’s audience for Real Time with Bill Maher. It was a great show – lots of sharp-witted commentary (the remote interview with Michael Moore was particularly good) and a great song from John Legend while the credits rolled.
The traffic out of Hollywood was nuts! We had to get [...]
In honor of this festive season, I thought I’d share this picture of Mekong and Pumpkin taking an inquisitive sniff of a bottle of absinthe we bought a while back. We always joke that Mekong thinks he’s Superman – check out the spiffy collar – and Pumpkin is our little Aquaman with his green and [...]
What constitutes a Statesman?
Houston Haynes, June 19, 2004
A statesman, above all, must first be a “man” – that is to say, a person – an individual who has an understanding of self. His industry stems from the desire to move forward and strive for those worthy ideas that may seem improbable or unlikely. He reaches [...]
I was channel surfing late one night and stumbled across the opening scene of Lawrence of Arabia, which had been restored and expanded in 1989 – and was being broadcast in high definition on HDNET. I decided that it was time to sit through this and watch it, beginning to end. There are people that [...]


Make your prediction – msnbc.com
Make your Electoral College Prediction – msnbc.com.
This is a cool site – which allows you to not only check out different scenarios, but also check out your pics against other’s pics as well as the current NBC analysis.
Here’s mine:
For those of you that were holding out hope for Georgia, West Virginia and Indiana – I’m [...]