“There’s no delete button on the internet”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 5, 2011 We keep teaching this lesson to the children, then refusing to learn it ourselves. You know the lesson I mean: The Internet is everywhere and forever. We say, kiddies, keep those Spring Break photos off of Facebook. We say no bong [...]
(Are you reading this? After May 21st? Harold Camping was wrong.) R.E.M. – “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” ”Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right – right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched. It’s the end of the world as [...]
“The end … of the prediction”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,May 22, 2011 You’ll never go wrong with this prediction: The world is not about to end. If the world survives, you get to say, “I told you so.” If the world does end – well, no one’s around to point out how clueless you were. [...]
The Kinks: “Hay Fever” “The pollen count’s getting higher and higher My eyes are sore and my nose is on fire My throat’s dry now and I’m starting to perspire My stuffed up head’s killing all of my desire I got hay fever, you wicked allergy, Hay fever, you put the curse on me and [...]
“This allergy season nothing to sneeze at”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,May 15, 2011 Achoo! Achoo! Sorry, but allergy sneezes almost never arrive alone. Runny noses. Watery eyes. Scratchy throats. Wheezing and sneezing and then sneezing some more. The experts won’t quite say this is the worst spring ever for airborne allergies on Long Island, even [...]
“Early reports on SEAL raid also incorrect”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,May 8, 2011 The Fog of War, the Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz famously called it. And that was a pretty good term. The idea was that, in the heat of battle, the details of what just happened could get awfully confused. Who shot [...]
“I don’t agree with hardly a word that Governor Pawlenty said.” – Ellis Henican Ellis Henican appeared on FoxNews LIVE – with Arthel Neville and Jim Pinkerton (05/06/11) – to discuss the first Republican debate of the 2012 Presidential campaign. E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
Was the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton over-hyped? Probably. But wasn’t there something optimistic about the nuptials? E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
“There are very few people in American history who can stand in front of an audience and inspire people.” – Ellis Henican Ellis Henican, Amy Dickinson, and Mary Matalin offer their views on Barack Obama at the Tennesse Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans (March 27, 2011). Is he charming Americans? [...]
“The best thing for the Democrats in 2012 is for the Trump campaign—for the Republican nomination—to go on and on” Listen to the Ellis Henican Radio Show: E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist at Newsday and a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series “Sealab 2021.”
