A 2015 Conversation With Don Draper

“Mad Men” has officially retired, but its star, Don Draper (AKA “Tricky Dickie Whitman”) is still alive and well. The suits he wears these days are sweatsuits, but he still cuts a handsome, if wrinkled figure in his walker outfitted with Penn tennis balls on the feet. The Lint Screen recently pulled up a barstool … Read more

Fertilizer For Ivy Leaguers

The following is my commencement address to the Princeton University Class of 2015. Good afternoon. Sit, please. Enough applause already, please sit. Thanks. That was a lovely rendition of “Pomp & Circumference”–– let’s it hear it for the PU band! You guys rock. As I look out on all those fancy robes, colorful sashes, Mortar … Read more