The Recent Records Release

One of my favorite times of the year is when more of the Nixon documents and tapes are released.  Where there isn’t anything earthshattering, or history changing about the disclosures, the releases do provide deeper nuanced understanding of Richard Nixon and his...

Coming Soon To A Theater Near You

The Cineplex serving us Western Shore bumpkins only books movies that  have at least one superhero and several scenes in which things get blown up real good. So I haven’t seen Ron Howard’s cinematic Frost/Nixon yet, but what kind of a critic would I be if...

Odetta — 1930-2008

Odetta died last night in New York.  She was 77.  After suffering for several years with heart and lung problems, she entered Lenox Hill Hospital at the end of October for treatment of kidney failure.   Her manager, Douglas Yeager, said that her hope of singing at...

A Member of Generation Y Defends Nixon

Alex Pareene is 23.  He was just 20 when he dropped out of NYU to take over the political blog, Wonkette.com, not long after its founding writer Ana Marie Cox departed. Following 18 months covering the Beltway scene in that era of the second Internet boom (now feeling...