I want you to watch this video. Danish woman’s one-night stand ‘a hoax’ Unfortunately, you’ll see right atop the page that this clip has been revealed as a hoax.  But before it was removed from YouTube, the first time I saw it I thought it was real.  Almost.  Before forwarding it to anybody, I did […]

This is how you use the Internet. Growing up in Connecticut, the only star I ever saw was Bette Davis.  She was signing her book in Klein’s, the book store cum audio shop cum record store on the main drag in Westport.  It’s hard for Felice to fathom.  That stars weren’t a regular part of […]

"He (Bezos) went on to describe Amazon’s actions as ‘stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with our principles.’"Amazon.com Offers to Replace Copies of Orwell Book What if your enemy suddenly becomes your friend? What if someone you hate, for oppressing you, for doing something stupid, admits his mistake and offers to make amends? I’m […]

"What the Great Recession has crystallized is a larger syndrome that Obama tapped into during the campaign. It’s the sinking sensation that the American game is rigged – that, as the president typically put it a month after his inauguration, the system is in hock to ‘the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few’ […]