Peter Murmann

I no longer have the patience to watch Woody Allen movies, but his short pieces in the New Yorker are still fun to read. Here is a wonderful postscript to the Madoff Ponzi scheme that made many jewish people wonder why they would be so credulous. Woody Allen in New Yorker, March 30, 2009: Two [Read More]

Start the Fire By ROGER COHEN (NY Times) With apologies to Billy Joel, who’s more of a chronologist, and in tribute to a president, Barack Hussein Obama, representing a new post-cold-war generation of 21st-century Americans. We Didn’t Start the Fire (2) Bill Clinton, Tina Fey, capitalist China, O.J., Asia rising, Facebook, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ugg boots, [Read More]

 

Catholic Google  is supposed to help avoiding sin. I don’t think it works. Try it out with your favorite sinful words!

A campaign is the time to stab your enemies and a transition is the time to stab your friends.

Question to Steward Copeland of the Police: Sting was photographed outside the Relax bordello in Hamburg in September. Were you tempted to join him? SC: He never asked us to go with him! His 17-year-old daughter said it best, though: “Dad, at least you didn’t get busted playing golf.” None of The Police play golf. Found [Read More]