In my little town
Friday, April 14th, 2006As for me …
This week, I was elected to chair our town’s Democratic Committee. I have a feeling that a lot of people wouldn’t want the job because (a) it involves a lot of herding cats and (b) in an area that is perceived as heavily Republican, there are a bunch of folks up here […]
It can get you into trouble but it can’t get you out*
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006You know, never mind having ethics or morals.
If nothing else works to keep you on the straight-and-narrow, consider what happens when you get caught.
I’d say Jack Abramoff is learning, painfully, that it hurts to hit bottom when you get knocked off your pinacle.
The rest of us are learning, or should be, that the […]
Extra, extra, read all about it
Saturday, January 7th, 2006Occasionally I come across something that actually makes me sorry — well, for a minute or two, anyway — that I don’t watch TV anymore.
I could find it in my heart to wish that more members of the mainstream media would take O’Reilly to task for having the nerve to call his propaganda service an […]
Ooo, I like the sound of harmony from time to time
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Today, John Dickerson wrote something in Slate that got me thinking.
Here’s what he wrote:
This president was never going to let anyone peek into his private conversations with Miers. But Bush and his advisers never thought they’d have to. They assumed that Bush’s backing Miers’ résumé (including her religious credentials) and her gender would allow the […]