Topic: Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley's latest novel, Boomsday, confirmed this for me. The plot revolves around Cassandra Devine, (aka Cassie Cochrane), a public relations executive and inveterate blogger who, in her latter persona, tries to effect change by challenging her generation of thirty-somethings. Her ...
Have you stopped to ponder whether we are on the doorstep of generational warfare? Beyond the road rage, there are a number of messages that see Baby Boomers as " Boomers are portrayed as greedy, technology challenged, resource goobling, Social Security wrecking, anti-green ...
The article reviews the book " Spin, spin, sugar Anthony Byrt Boomsday Christopher Buckley Allison & Busby, 318pp, ?10.99 America's aging population is a resource- hogging mass of obscenely healthy, overpre- scribed, golf-happy pension-suckers, tanned to deepest shades of Floridian orange and ...
Two months before the Gulf War began in 1991, President George H. W. Bush greeted U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia February 2003 | By Christopher Buckley .
I came up with Christopher Buckley's Boomsday, published in early 2007. In Buckley's book, the younger generation rebels against the inequitable tax burden caused by baby boomers reaching retirement age. " The cover story turned out to be a fairly innocuous ...
Washington, D.C. is chockablock with historians, but perhaps none so jaunty as satirist Christopher Buckley, who says that Congress in 1783 debated a " On the 137th anniversary of the day Mr. Lincoln was shot, I joined a tour in Lafayette Square ...
Looking over the Internet this past week, I noticed that Christopher Buckley had expressed his disapproval of President Obama yet again, this time chiding the chief executive for his television appearance with Jay Leno. My father seldom talked about his boyhood--growing up ...
A humorist--and, I should disclose, an old friend--Christopher Buckley exercised his acute comic sense during the presidential campaign, judging John McCain so thoroughly risible that the nation could hardly do worse by electing Barack Obama. "The strange thing," Buckley wrote last week ...
The Plaza's about to sell out. A little applause?Hugh Jackman goes to contract on a Meier-designer condo for around $25 mill. Christopher Buckley offends East Side sensibility with comments on parents' Park pad.Billionaire Eli Broad keeps trying to sell ...
Private views of Rankin's work tend to involve lashings of champagne and unfeasibly beautiful women dressed for a heatwave, but the latest was rather different. The photographer whose subjects include Kate Moss, Grace Jones and the Queen (Jones didn't scare ...
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An Evening with Christopher Buckley 2009
Political satirist (Thank You For Smoking) Christopher Buckley brings down ...2009-04-23 -
Anything Goes with Chris Buckley
In this wide-ranging interview, bouncing from the comic to the ...2008-10-21 -
Chris Buckley Endorses Barack Obama
and bows out of National Review: www.thedailybeast.com2008-10-15
