The low expectations game has been played by Bush’s handlers so well that I fully expect, if Kerry wipes the floor with Bush during the debate tonight, he will be excoriated by the Republicans and their Fox mouthpieces for “picking on the President”. Update: C-Span is doing split-screen, despite the “agreement.” It’s a treat to …
Just when you thought House Republicans couldn’t get any more loony, they’ve now decided that deporting people to places where they may very well be tortured as an interrogation technique is a good thing. You think I’m kidding? Go read this and then get on the horn to your Congressperson, be he/she an R, a …
Once again I’ve been overlooked by the MacArthur Foundation. What do booksellers, ragtime pianists, poets, and philologists have that I ain’t got? T’ain’t fair, McGee.
Oh my.
From Knight-Ridder’s Washington Bureau: “I have one position on Iraq,” Kerry insisted this week during a rare news conference. “One position.” In fact, he’s right, his image as a “flip-flopper” notwithstanding. Kerry voted in October 2002 for the congressional resolution that authorized President Bush to go to war in Iraq. He now says that the …
After seeing all this CBS furor, the column cited below may have even more relevance than it did last week when I ran across it. Here’s an essay from a journalism ethics professor, on why he thinks the nation’s great papers are losing their nerve. It’s hard now even to write for publication without being …
It’s amazing how a simple line drawing can depict an entire election.
A while back it was John LeCarr? who was angry at Bush (I mentioned it here); now it’s E.L. Doctorow who takes up his cudgel. I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve …
If allowing churches to engage in partisan political activity is such a good idea, then it deserves an open debate. Instead, its backers “…hope to do this by inserting a provision into a bill that is already before a House-Senate conference committee – thus avoiding public debate or votes in either body.” There’s a great …
Tomorrow I’ll discuss the hazards of installing a new refrigerator and a new dishwasher in the same day, but I’m doing a short television show review first. I almost never watch much but news and sports, but this review in our local paper intrigued me, so I sat down and watched Lost tonight. I liked …