TweetMy good friend Samuel Tenenbaum shared with me a link to the radio ad Inez did for Joe. It helps drive home my point in my previous post, about the folks Democrats have backed in the past pretty much all being for Joe — something I hope Democratic voters take to heart tomorrow. Here’s the link, […]
Tweet Last week, my good friend Samuel Tenenbaum shared the above photo with me. I’m proud to share it with y’all. And proud to know Samuel. He’s been giving platelets at the Red Cross for more than a decade, and on the day this was taken (eight days ago) he had officially given 250 units! […]
TweetConcerned about this Facebook message from Inez Tenenbaum, as of Monday evening: Our home on the Saluda River is flooded and the renovations will probably take six weeks or more. If any of my Facebook friends know of a place we can rent (with two dogs and four cats) please let me know! Thanks so […]
TweetAnother little contact report… Talking with Inez Tenenbaum this morning about her support of Joe Biden, I changed the subject to Hillary Clinton and asked, somewhat facetiously, whether Inez used two email accounts when she was in Washington as head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. “No,” she said. “I was told emphatically… that all federal […]
Tweet By BRAD WARTHENEDITORIAL PAGE EDITORI REALIZED that the whole thing was getting out of hand when my wife started asking me why I didn’t want to be her “friend.” Not to get into personal matters too deeply, I had always sort of thought my wife was, is and will be my friend — my […]
TweetBy BRAD WARTHENEDITORIAL PAGE EDITORNOW THAT HE’S got his economic and national security teams lined up, President-Elect Obama can turn to the “second-tier” Cabinet positions, such as Secretary of Education. Normally, I wouldn’t take all that much interest in the Education job. I don’t see education as a proper function of the federal government; […]
TweetMy friend and sometime Energy Party think-tanker Samuel Tenenbaum sees justification for a true, enforced, 55-mph speed limit in many things — including this latest outrage from Saudi Arabia: The Jerusalem Post reports that our good friends over at the house of Saud are threatening to confiscate Christian and Jewish tourists’ Bibles. Quoth Samuel: Now […]
Tweet Y’all, I’ve been too busy to post today, but as you know this was a busy day in Columbia for presidential candidates. Of course, it was a lot more than that. It was MLK Day, which for me has generally been a rather busy holiday. It all started 20 years ago today, when the […]
Tweet Years ago — probably well over a decade ago — I was having lunch with my good friend Samuel Tenenbaum, and he pulled a Ziploc sandwich bag out his pocket. It contained maybe a dozen or so pills and capsules of different colors, sizes, shapes and textures. As he proposed to take them all, […]
Tweet When I was in college, one of my journalism professors told me that The Wall Street Journal was perhaps the best-written paper in the country. I didn’t discover how right he was until decades later. As editorial page editor, I had print subscriptions to the Journal and The New York Times, plus The Economist, […]
Tweet Since Friday night, my wife and I have been semi-bingeing (I think we’ve seen five episodes so far) on “The Crown,” the new series from Netflix. So it seems a delightful coincidence that Samuel Tenenbaum shares the following important message with me via email. I find it comforting, a warm embrace from our Mother Country, […]
Tweet Generally, I’ve been happy, even a little excited, to hear that Joe Biden might challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Part of it is the unsavory side of the presumed front-runner that her email mess reveals, day after day. Actually, not so much “reveals” as “reminds us of.” We are reminded of the […]
Tweet As you know, Je ne suis pas Charlie. Well, as it turns out, if Google Translate is right, Le Pape n’est pas Charlie, soit. And not only that, but watch what you say about his Mama. I learned all this from this Tweet from Bryan: .@BradWarthen are Catholics gonna start punching people, now that the Pope […]
TweetWell, I figure that most of y’all who are going to give before the event Saturday morning have already given. And I thank you for your generosity. We’re now at $3,556, which is very good. Of course, I went wild a couple of days ago and raised the goal to $5,000, but as someone said […]
TweetMight as well be bold, right? Last week, we went from exceeding our initial $1,000 goal to topping the $3,000 mark in just two days. Yes, we had some extraordinary help. After Doug Ross had singlehandedly put us over the thousand mark, Bryan Caskey came in and raised almost half of our current total of […]
Tweet Before another day passes, I want to express my appreciation to E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post Writers Group and the Brookings Institution, for delivering the 2011 Cardinal Bernardin lecture at USC last night. Perhaps because he’s from my world, he spoke to me as no previous speaker has in the 12 years of […]
Tweet My good friend Samuel Tenenbaum has a VERY soft heart for critters, and occasionally sends out pics of strays seeking a home. He and Inez have taken in quite a few themselves over the years, with their menagerie often numbering in the double digits. Here’s the latest he’s trying to help with, and here’s […]
TweetCatching up on my e-mail, I ran across this release from our friend Wesley over with the Senate Republicans: Senate passes bill giving DHHS budget flexibility The state Department of Health and Human Services needs to crawl out of a $228 million hole for this fiscal year, alone. Next year, deficit estimates top $500 million. […]
TweetBeing at the source of our beloved language, I particularly enjoy this e-mail that Samuel Tenenbaum passed on. I’d read some of these offerings from some of the cleverer practitioners on both sides of the pond, but not all: When Insults Had Class These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got […]
TweetThis morning as I parked on Assembly preparing to go in for breakfast, I ran into my good friend Samuel Tenenbaum, who was just leaving. He was agitated, as he often is. He and Patrick Cobb from AARP had just been commiserating about the general decline of our society, what Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed “defining […]