You’re showing your age, Barry Blitt. I, too, remember the horror we felt learning that the French considered Jerry Lewis a comic genius. It was back in the days of Richard Pryor and Firesign Theater, slightly after Shelly Berman and Lenny Bruce, back when Monty Python made skits spoofing DH Lawrence and having communist theorists […]
Pros & Cons (KFS) comes as close to political as I plan to get today, in part because I’m finding the whole thing exhausting and in part because Lyndon sums up my take more concisely than I would. People are complaining that Bill Barr didn’t step up sooner and that Mike Pence didn’t step up […]
This K Chronicles brought me back to my (second) senior year in college, when my wife and I canceled our Chicago paper because it was such a downer. We still got the South Bend Tribune, whose editorial page was also depressing but which at least was not a compendium of murders. Ignoring problems doesn’t make […]