Peter Murmann

Andrew Sullivan sums up what we can expect of the next weeks until the November election. The phoney war is over as the US presidential candidates square up for the most compelling contest in a generation. The eagerly anticipated text message arrived on millions of mobile phones yesterday at 3am. With it, many Americans who [Read More]

  Part 2: May 6, 2009 A Complicated Question  By MAUREEN DOWD (NY Times) I had dinner once with John and Elizabeth Edwards, when he first burst onto the national scene. Looking across the booth at her grinning, boyish husband, she told me that it was irritating to be married to someone so comely who looked so much [Read More]

Flawless was better than my neighbor on a previous flight made it sound. It has an interesting psychological twist at the end. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is more fun to watch than the first Harry Potter, a flick that bored me out of my mind. Leatherheads, directed and strarring George Clooney is [Read More]

While everyone was focusing on Obama’s world tour last week, Frank Rich puts the spotlight on McCain and raises serious questions whether McCain is ability the see what the priorities of the day are. How Obama Became Acting President By FRANK RICH (NYT) IT almost seems like a gag worthy of He never would have been treated [Read More]

If this is all I would ever say when I don’t know that a microphone is recording me, I would be very happy. The relatively tame headline on ABC News “Microphone Picks Up Private Conversation Between Obama and British Leader on Need for Vacations and ‘Thinking’ Time” was dramatized by the Drudgereport to “BAM [Read More]

Elizabeth Kolbert (New Yorker June 9, 2008) presents a wonderful portrait of Buckminster Fuller (yes, this a name of a person).  My own imagination was fired up when I read some of Fuller’s incredible ideas. Annals of Innovation: Dymaxion Man The U.S. Pavilion for the 1967 World Fuller called his invention the Dymaxion Vehicle. He believed that it [Read More]

LINDA GREENHOUSE covered the Supreme Court for the NY Times during the past 30 years. The review of her experience is a great read and a superb civics lesson. 2,691 Decisions By LINDA GREENHOUSE (NY Times) WASHINGTON But not this year. I am retiring from The New York Times to write and teach at Yale Law School. So this [Read More]

Read this book review and be reminded why George Bush stepping down is going to be a big relief for America. [A day later: Frank Rich also reviews the book and comes to the conclusion that we may be in for an terrorists attack before long. Then all bets about the election are off] THE DARK [Read More]

The last couple of weeks my excitement about Obama’s candidacy has cooled considerably. BOB HERBERT (NY Times) has articulated well what is bothering people like me. I wonder whether the fund-raising machine will work without a message that is one of change rather than putting together a convenience coalition. Obama has stumbled before and come [Read More]