Adult Beverages Dept.Here’s a name of good omen (for those of you so metaphysically inclined). I found this at Marty’s, opposite the Whole Foods in Newtonville. A nice merlot for Sunday or any other occasion. Not too sweet.

Max Borders on the Think Tank Bubble. (If there’s anything serious conservatives don’t need if they want to revitalize the movement, it’s more think tanks.)

I’ve never met Amy Welborn, but we’ve been email/blogger buddies for a couple of years. She’s a hard working author and mother. Today comes the terrible news that her husband collapsed and died suddenly. Keep her and her children in your thoughts and prayers.

This is inspiring. Listen to movie star Christian Bale go on an obscenity filled tirade over a director of photography (not exactly a low-on-the-totem-pole professional) after he accidentally interrupted a take. And the servile apologies from the poor guy and the director. Unbelievable. Anyone remember if Errol Flynn ever behaved like this? Or John Wayne?… Continue reading

Perhaps there’s some irony in all of this: The equity firms sold in 2006 to Riverdeep Group of Dublin, a $392 million educational software company (since reincorporated in the Cayman Islands) that was controlled by O’Callaghan, for $3.4 billion. Like Messier, O’Callaghan was on a spree, with other people’s money. He borrowed most of it… Continue reading