Monday, September 17, 2012

Several Great Reads For a Rainy Monday


BEEN POURING CATS-AND-DOGS HERE.   Kind of day you want to cancel everything and stay in to catch up on mail and desk work or take a nap.  Also perfect for reading.  While browsing online this morning,  I came across  several fascinating articles I think are well worth passing on.

First, a piece just posted on Vanity Fair called Obama's Way by Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Liar's Poker) that gives readers inside access into a slice of President Obama's wobbly life in the White House. It's long, but I couldn't walk away till I'd read it all. Michael Lewis is a masterful reporter, writer and wordsmith. It's clear from the piece---which was written long before last week's Libyan crisis---he was charmed by the president and especially his basketball acumen. Or something like that. Clearly Lewis had major access to the leader of the free world and enjoyed every minute of it.  Go see what you think if you can bear to read another word on the man currently in the White House.
Josh Brown comments on the piece @ The Reformed Broker.


Second,  Laurence Lemear @ The Daily Beast has written a dynamite smack-down piece on Arnold Schwarzenegger who is now trying to reinvent himself and his movie career in Hollywood after being governator of California. It's called He Won't Be Back---Arnold Schwarzenegger's Doomed Comeback and thusly beings,

He's fishing for a career revival with a juicy autobiography, but it may be too late to salvage his name. Laurence Leamer reveals the messy drama that brought down the Governator—including new details on how Maria Shriver apparently found out about his affair and his alleged refusal to continue couples therapy with her.

If you had even an ounce of admiration left for Arnold, you won't after reading Lemear's piece. He's a world-class egomaniac and womanizer. I have a good friend who was accousted one evening by Arnold and two of his thug bodyguards in a hotel elevator in Toronto, and says she escaped the man who doesn't like taking No! for an answer by the skin of her teeth. He and Bill Clinton are in the same class when it comes to such indiscretions. Only between the two, Arnold is a lot more scary.


If you can handle one more piece, I saw this last night @ the WSJ Online.

Called The Kid Who Skated to Yankee Stadium, it tells the story of a kid of 25 who skated and walked almost 400 miles in a Babe Ruth uniform to catch a game at Yankee Stadium:

On Friday morning I got an email from my friend Dan, who lives in New Jersey, not far from the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge into New York City. He said he'd just encountered a kid who was walking from Buffalo, N.Y., to Yankee Stadium. In a car that trip is about 400 miles and takes about seven hours. The kid had left Buffalo 10 days ago.

Read the whole thing here.

Finally, was murdered, former Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens a gay man in a truly homophobic Muslim country  kills and imprisons homosexual men and women?  If he was, what was the Obama administration----and Secretary Clinton----thinking? Or were they  thinking?

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