May 2007

Is there a link, a connection, between what is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of U.S. involved combat, and what is going on in the French Open?
Tennis is my favorite game and I follow it. What has just happened in the men’s singles is a disaster for America. In the worst

A private protective curtain was pulled aside today revealing (some of) the candidates’ income and assets, thanks to the government’s Federal Election rules.
There can be no doubt that money links directly to moral, as well as net, worth, so let’s see what grabs our attention.
First we need to discount Hilary Clinton (D), John

June 30, 2007
I see you have joined this church in your hometown of Kent, Connecticut, and I am glad to read that it brings you great comfort.

On Tuesday June 26 you made a keynote morning address at their 2007 General Synod meeting in Hartford during the run of your play Nightingale at Hartford

Royalty comes to Jamestown this week, to help celebrate exactly 400 years since its founding. It has been exactly 50 years since her last visit to this seat of American democracy, which connects to the form as we know it today.
As it happens, today is also exactly 62 years since I, as a child

July 4, 2007

My morbid self finds regular amusement in the obit columns of the London Daily Telegraph. Always enlightening, my favorites are learning of the exploits of newly deceased members of HM forces from the Second World War, and dead members of the theatrical profession.

George Melly I vaguely met from the side-lines during