If I were still writing about politics – a hobby I gave up around the same time I stopped extracting my own teeth for sport –I might posit an audacious theory: that the hip and famously eccentric young team of Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers have made a profoundly conservative film in “Where The Wild Things Are.”
People all over the world seem to have a penchant for organizing annual festivals that revolve around a community’s collective admiration of some locally-grown food.
So lately we’ve been hearing a lot of cheery news. The economy is turning around. The crime rate is dropping. Retail sales are rising.Houses are selling. Prosperity is just around the corner.
I drove home from Orlando on a Saturday afternoon and flew to New York City the following Monday.It was as if I had moved from one Magic Kingdom to another.