Indeed, faithful readers, I have just spent my first week as a resident of Brooklyn. A few notes: The barbershop on 63rd and Bay Parkway seems like a relic of the 50’s. The old man who cut my hair had great difficulty in straightening my sideburns. In the thirty-six minutes it took him to cut [...]
Heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko backs-up Lamon Brewster in Cologne, Germany.
As predicted, Wladimir Klitschko retained his heavyweight championship in Cologne on Saturday via a 6th Round stoppage after Brewster’s corner had seen enough. Klitschko had repeatedly landed a stiff jab, which kept Brewster off-balance, while unloading other weapons in his arsenal. As the sixth round [...]
Friends, Romans, Countrymen: It is with much happiness that I am able to convey the news of my impending relocation to the borough of Brooklyn from Rockaway Beach, Queens. I will not miss the feature-film-length commute to work, nor shall I miss the portly woman who insists on cutting the line for the express bus [...]
This week the president commuted the sentence of a former aid of the vice president’s. This aid had been convicted of obstructing a government investigation into a CIA leak. To put it mildly, there is no simple and objective way to portray the events surrounding this drama just yet, as it is fresh history. [...]
