Jan 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced this morning, and the list may not be one to bring a wide Opie-style grin to the face of Ron Howard. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button led the nominations with thirteen — many of them in...
Jan 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A lot is being made, and justifiably so, out of a number of previous Inaugural Addresses. Just the other night, all the Obamas read, on the north wall of the temple in which the 16th President’s memory is enshrined forever, the model to which the President...
Jan 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I took two walks earlier today. Despite the dire warnings of the media about the ghastly human gridlock that was (and probably will be tomorrow) inevitable, I braved the Metro system, and wandered around the Mall and the White House precincts for about an hour this...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Good friends we have had, Oh, good friends we’ve lost along the way. In this great future you can’t forget your past. The Gilberto Gil cover of “No Woman No Cry” has been working its way to the top of my TNN Weekly Weekend Reward queue for...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven! Wordsworth’s vision of 1789 is no less true in 2009 as hordes of young uns descend on Washington to begin their jobs in the Obama administration. JFK brought numbers of younger-than-usual...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The BBC’s excellent arts magazine radio program The Strand invited several writers and poets to compose “open letters” to Barack Obama on the occasion of his inauguration. The two that most impressed and moved me were those by journalist, author,...
