With the departure of Mark Penn — Hillary Clinton’s chief pollster, and ambulatory heart attack risk — the Clinton campaign has once again shuffled the deck, trading political continuity for political expediency.
Now, don’t get me wrong: Penn wasn’t doing anyone any favors. Hillary’s chances — both nationally, and in the bitterly contested Pennsylvania primary — […]
For the past week or so, I’ve been drafting an open letter to Floridian Democrats — but I can’t focus on those yahoos without losing my temper. (Suffice it to say, careful throwing around the term “disenfranchised.” You look stupid enough as it is, without paying lip service to the political equivalent of “reverse racism.”) […]
Geraldine Ferraro has drawn the ire of the Obama campaign (and the appreciation of the 24-hours new media, I would imagine) for stating in an interview with The Daily Breeze that Barack Obama “happens to be very lucky to be who he is.” Namely, a black man.
I suspect the Obama campaign responded angrily because — […]
So, Hillary won Texas after all (along with Ohio and Rhode Island). Onward we trek, toward Pennsylvania, and Mississippi, and — eventually — Denver. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing — and whether Florida and Michigan are allowed do-overs, as now seems possible — I’ve noticed an irksome argument taking shape.
It […]
In the past few weeks, I’ve received multiple emails both espousing the values of Barack Obama and encouraging me to vote for him. Well … I did vote for Obama: in the New York primary, way back on 2/5. In fact, many of the well-intentioned folk sending these emails also — ostensibly — voted Democratic […]
Hi, everybody, and sorry for the prolonged absence: first I took a vacation (back in December), immediately followed by a second vacation (which lasted into January), after which my work schedule got hectic (like, right after Vacation #2), then I had to babysit a 4-year-old for 27 hours (necessitating an eventual third vacation, whenever I […]
We’re driving up to visit the in-laws tomorrow, and off to Cancun shortly after that, so I intended to write something happy and holiday-conscious today — and then Representative Virgil H. Goode, of Virigina, sent the following letter to his constituents (dated 12/5/06, only now are news outlets like the Times getting ahold of the […]
Institutions like the Filibuster exists for a reason, asshole.
It rhymes, it’s alliterate — you know it must be fluff. Harkens back to my days writing copy for Us Weekly. Sigh.
Back in 2000, I was teaching Freshman English Composition at the University of Arizona; I went to sleep after the presidential election had been called, thinking Al Gore had won. I didn’t read anything […]
(Has anyone properly traced the etymology of “infidel” and “infidelity?” Just asking. But I digress before I’ve had time to fully digress.)
Living in New York, as I do, I’m thankfully spared much of the election-day crappola. I mean, we all know how we’re voting here, and we’re widely conceived as miscreants and howling liberals, so […]
