Friday Reads

 Here is a firsthand account of last weekend's debacle in Auckland, directly from the object of the harassers' ire.

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Perhaps for once they should make themselves invisible.

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Obit:  I don't want to let too many years go by before noting the recent death of political satirist Mark Russell, 90, who typically accompanied himself on the piano.

He died in D.C. after battling prostate cancer.

Snip:

In 1975, Russell landed a series of PBS specials, where his zingers knew no partisan bounds — lobbed at Democrats and Republicans alike. The specials would continue on PBS until 2004.

The spectacled entertainer became the first comedian to headline Washington’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 1983.

The whole country, Russell said in a 1991 interview, is “divided into two groups — the people who are curious and not curious.”

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