Late-Date Gift Ideas
Courtesy of Bob and Ray long ago
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
The fabulous Bob and Ray Show on public radio aired originally in the early 1980s. Their “sponsors” were great, too.
This episode of the show delves into several issues that are just as current today: American-manufactured artisanal paperclips, journalistic tenacity, and, uh, pizza flipping traditions in the “circular foods restaurant” business. In the packed half-hour episode, they still have time to act out an episode of the radio soap opera “Garish Summit: the continuing story of intrigue among the socially prominent—where, in stately splendor, far removed from the squalid village below, they fight their petty battles over power and money.”
Nevertheless, it’s always worth keeping the names Einbinder and Monongahela in mind when looking for something for that choosy someone on Christmas Day. Details, as they say, inside.
https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/norman-podhoretz-1930-2025/
Norman Podhoretz has died of old age.
Thor and Sheldon came over yesterday to do their laundry. We played Wingspan, having missed it on Saturday because we went out for drinks and pizza. I was 3rd, in a weirdly low-scoring game in which Sheldon had twelve birds played but still had the lowest bird-points score. Vlad, who defeated his father with a tie-breaker, will drive Thor to the airport this afternoon. Thor is going to visit his sister in Oregon.