By: Bill Hennessy (Diary)  |  March 12th at 09:08 AM  | 

Jennifer Rubin—WaPo’s token conservative—said it perfectly: McCain lost his cool with Rand Paul and sounded like the old man down the street screaming to the new kids on the block, “Get off my lawn!” The real reason McCain and Lindsey Graham embarrassed themselves on the floor of Senate had nothing to do with what Rand Paul said. Rand Paul’s ideas terrify McCain, Graham, and most of | Read More »

By: Bill Hennessy (Diary)  |  February 25th at 05:46 PM  | 

A reporter once informed Cary Grant, the legendary leading man, that a Time Magazine poll found him the man most American men wanted to be. Was Grant surprised? “No,” he said. “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. I want to be Cary Grant.” Don Draper is the new Cary Grant Who doesn’t want to be like Don Draper? Great looking. Smart. Rich. Beautiful women. Good | Read More »

By: Bill Hennessy (Diary)  |  December 9th at 01:36 PM  | 

English was my favorite subject in school, so much so that I can still recite from memory large passages of the books we read, like A Separate Peace: I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there 15 years before. And who doesn’t know this by heart: If you really want to | Read More »