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jss @ April 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
I have managed to stay studiously wordless about the presidential race for the entire month of the Democratic campaign in Pennsylvania. I know all about it, though. I’m glad Pennsylvanians get to make a difference of some kind. I mean, I used to be one. We weren’t bitter at all back then, either. That’s how [...]
jss @ April 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Daily Kos, the biggest blog extent for Democratic politics, has been offline for about an hour as I type this; and if I were the type of blogger who lives for conspiracy theories, I would be blaming John McCain, AT&T, Verizon, Hillary Clinton, General Petraeus, the freeping loons at Free Republic … the list of [...]
jss @ March 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Pick the quote from the autumn of 2002 and tell me who you think has a better grasp of world affairs:
“I am very certain that this military engagement will not be very difficult.”
– John McCain on CNN, September 12, 2002.
or:
“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of [...]
jss @ March 12, 2008 # 2 Comments
The Times is a paper I love to hate. I read it. I expect greatness from it, since it is, after all, The New York Times. I am disappointed far too often and far more than I was years ago.
Maybe my standards keep going up. It is possible. I mean, *I* expect to keep [...]
jss @ March 11, 2008 # One Comment
So the New York governor who was once the squeaky-clean white-knight attorney general, the scourge of Wall Street, is going to resign for being outed for paying for sex with gorgeous young escorts.
I get that. It’s really hard to muster up any sympathy. It’s difficult for me to think of him now other than as [...]
jss @ March 10, 2008 # One Comment
I’m getting a little more suspicious of everybody as events unfold. That’s normal for anyone who’s ever done time as a reporter …
So, Gov. Spitzer was “nabbed,” to use the technical word, because he was identified on a federal wiretap, making arrangements to meet a high-priced sex worker, who allegedly traveled from New York [...]
jss @ March 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
As I type, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is holding a news conference to confess his involvement in a prostitution ring. The New York Times apparently had the scoop and I expect it will be a least a couple of days before this particular story falls off the front page.
As do most politico-sex scandals, this [...]
jss @ February 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yes, I had to look that word up, which is a little shameful to someone who has done hard toime as a newspaper columnist. Because every once in a while, you don’t have that big, delicious idea in time for deadline, and you do a “potpourri” column, blended from all the ideas that weren’t quite [...]
jss @ February 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The problem that the right-wing base of the Republican Party has with John McCain is not about whether he is conservative enough now. He’s always been pro-war and anti-abortion, and now he’s flippy-flopped and is toeing the party line on immigration and tax cuts as well.
About all he’s got left to do is renounce campaign [...]
jss @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m doing research for my next book, which I’m not ready to write about yet though I have been contemplating that I might sort of ease into it at some appropriate point in time — which isn’t now, so I’m going to have to leave you guessing as to why I was searching The [...]
