These Cookbooks Are Pretentious, But With A Purpose
Two cookbooks crossed my desk recently, and they were, individually and collectively, the most pretentious things I’ve ever seen. It is as if they were competing for some sort of international award for affectation, and they were both tied for first place with nothing else even remotely close.
Hillary Clinton Book Tour Offers A Campaign Preview
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times The world may have to wait until 2015 for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s decision on whether she runs again for president, but the last 48 hours have offered a preview in miniature of what that campaign would look like — with all its advantages and burdens. With Tuesday’s splashy publication of […]
Snowden Relaxed, Jocular On Revelations, Book Says
Washington (AFP) – Edward Snowden was “profoundly at peace” with his decision to leak national security documents, and even joked about the consequences, journalist Glenn Greenwald says in a new book. “I call the bottom bunk at Gitmo,” Snowden joked, referring to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says the book to be […]
Bob Gates Gets Some Early Advice From His Publishers
Ron Suskind’s ‘Confidence Men’ Paints Obama As Brilliant Amateur
Among the charges leveled most frequently during Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential bid was that, having been a U.S. senator just two years and a state lawmaker and law professor before that, he lacked the executive experience and management skills to lead the most powerful country on Earth. Ron Suskind, the controversial author whose insider accounts […]