Archive for April 2015
Presidential Job Application Question #4 (with my answers): What’s your greatest governing triumph?
Slate’s John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled: The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President. Over the course of the next seven days, I plan on completing Dickerson’s application by answering each of the questions. I’ve always wanted to be President, so perhaps my answers will be…
Read MorePresidential Job Application Question #3 (with my answers): What’s your greatest political triumph?
Slate’s John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled: The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President. Over the course of the next seven days, I plan on completing Dickerson’s application by answering each of the questions. I’ve always wanted to be President, so perhaps my answers will be…
Read MorePresidential Job Application: Question #2 (with my answer): What's the biggest personal crisis you’ve faced and how did you handle it?
Slate’s John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled: The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President. Over the course of the next seven days, I plan on completing Dickerson’s application by answering each of the questions. I’ve always wanted to be President, so perhaps my answers will be…
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The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs: An expletive-laced mention in Library Journal
Library Journal – the journal for librarians everywhere – mention my upcoming novel with some surprisingly explicit language. But in a good way. I’m thrilled, of course. After my wife and children and the New England Patriots and the person who makes my Egg McMuffin every day, librarians are my favorite people.
Read MorePresidential Job Application Question #1 (with my answer): What’s the biggest crisis you’ve faced in your professional life and how did you handle it?
When I was in high school, I played a game in a character building workshop that required my classmates and me to assign a monetary value to our future dreams and priorities. We were given $100 and told to assign amounts of money to about 50 different categories like “Have a happy marriage” and “Travel the world” and…
Read MoreThought he was sick. Turns out he only wanted some attention.
Marco Rubio: You can’t claim to be young when your ideas are as old as dirt.
Marco Rubio is 44 years-old. He’s exactly my age. He also opposes same sex marriage. Opposes legalized marijuana. Doesn’t accept that climate change is man made. Doesn’t accept the theory of evolution. The list goes on. This man is my age, but he sounds like a crotchety, uninformed, pathetically entrenched old man who grew up in the different time. How…
Read MoreWhat do tanning beds, mustard gas, and arsenic have in common?
My gym, Big Sky Fitness, has been voted by the Hartford Advocate as the “Best Health and Fitness Center” for 12 years in a row. The staff actually sets up laptops at the juice bar during the voting period in order to give members the opportunity to express their approval of the place. Despite my affection…
Read MoreThis was not a temper tantrum. This was Britt McHenry being Britt McHenry.
You may have seen the video of ESPN’s Britt McHenry berating the employee of a towing company that had recently towed McHenry’s car. If not, the video is here: To summarize, McHenry said the following things to the employee of this towing company: “I’m in the news, sweetheart.” “I will fucking sue this place.” “That’s…
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