Former Lehman banker Ami Horowitz and filmmaker Michael Moore have a fair amount in common. They share the same film sales agent. They both spend time in the Bromley, a 23-story condominium on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They both produce documentaries. In fact, Horowitz spent the last two years producing a Moore-style documentary (down to …
Recently laid off? Looking to make a career change in this economy? You’re in luck, because the nation is getting a new C.E.O. and he’s hiring. But first you need to get in line. Over the last six months, the Obama campaign was a hiring machine (500 paid staffers in Florida alone), employing thousands of …
I hate to say this, because President-Elect Obama is setting the example for us to be nice and dignified and stop all the political/cultural warfare that divides, but it’s clear, the Republican Party is a cult of lies and destruction, as scary and in need of being stopped as the “Church” of Scientology. Republicans, at …
Recently laid off? Looking to make a career change in this economy? You’re in luck, because the nation is getting a new C.E.O. and he’s hiring. But first you need to get in line. Over the last six months, the Obama campaign was a hiring machine (500 paid staffers in Florida alone), employing thousands of …
“If life gives you limes, make margaritas.” -Jimmy Buffett Palm trees, sun melting on the horizon, booze in the blender. This is just another day at the “office” for Jimmy Buffett and his tens of thousands of fans, known as Parottheads. No economic downturn can intrude in this world. “There’s a recession on, but we’re …
Tonight, on the last night of the 2008 Presidential Election, after being up since 5am, doing get-out-the-vote and election protection in southern Virginia, I drove back to Washington, DC and passed the RNC headquarters just as it was announced we officially took Ohio. So I jumped out of the car and put an Obama lawn …
After reading this article by Roanoke columnist Dwayne Yancey summarizing the battlegrounds within the battleground state of Virginia, I called a campaign office in Purcellville — roughly 35 minutes south of Washington, DC by car. The campaign worker there said that their precincts are mostly red. Tomorrow they begin their get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operations, after doing …
Last night, at Bette Midler’s annual Hulaween Ball in the Waldorf Astoria, the eco-diva raised $2-3 million for New York’s Restoration Project. Ticket prices were $630 for balcony seats to $63,000 a table to raise money for an organization that clean-ups and revitalizes community gardens and underserved parks in NYC. The evening started off with …
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Who gets the Jewish vote? Pat Buchanan? Or is that only when Katherine Harris is monitoring the election. Ouch! The political videos keep coming, with this funny, insurance-commercially one by the National Jewish Democratic Council. (I really want to make a self-inflicting “goya” joke here but only a long lost Jewish ex-boyfriend would get it). …
Prediction: in this final countdown to the election, expect to see a whole lot more political videos popping up, sorta like the end of a fireworks show where the engineer just sends a gangload up at once, I predict it’ll be something like that. And if I’m wrong, buy me a coke. I’m not talking …