Some news today Sub Rosa, a small independent distributor in New York, is going to distribute my production of Richard the Second on Home Video and DVD. It will be nice (after all these years) to be able to tell people where they can find the movie.

David Frum has a good take on the manufacturing sector: “In all the economic good news this quarter, the stats on the manufacturing rebound tend to get overlooked. So pay attention: The index of manufacturing activity has bounced to its highest level since December 1983. Manufacturing hiring is now recovering too.”

Alex Beam apparently thinks fellow journalists Andrew Sullivan, Mickey Kaus and James Taranto are nuts because…er, they have blogs in addition to their regular gigs. Alex doesn’t, for reasons that remain unclear. Okay, just kidding. But he isn’t: [He] is completely crackers. Ever since he assumed the most visible perch in journalism, Krugman seems startled… Continue reading

William Safire on the Iraq/Al Qaeda connection. And his excellent source material from Edward Jay Epstein.

So far, it sounds like the protesters in London have about the same amount of drawing power as the ones here….