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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Taking Another Look at Newt Gingrich
Much to my annoyance, Newt Gingrich has reshuffled the deck by trouncing Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary. Coming on top of the announcement from Iowa that they think maybe Rick Santorum actually won the caucuses there (I am so glad we entrust Iowa with such a pivotal role in presidential politics), we have…
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How Much Trouble are the Democrats In?
Classmate, pal and fellow right-leaning ex-journalist Van Wallach at Kesher Talk thinks journalists are overplaying the Democratic debacle story line in Massachusetts: Don’t buy into the hype about terrible trouble for the Democrats. Some trouble, maybe. The mainstream media (MSM) is working overtime to rip into Obama like a pack of famished guppies. They want…
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Obama, Geithner Try to Calibrate Our Anxiety Level
Above all else, one thing was crystal clear after President Obama’s prime-time news conference last night: The President doesn’t read this blog. (What, you thought I was gonna talk about the economy?) Despite my admonition yesterday to Stop Saying “Depression”, Obama used the D word twice, once in his opening remarks and once in response…
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Mr. Obama: Declare War on Rube Goldberg
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins identifies the key culprit in the current economic woes. It’s not Hank Paulson or Hank Greenberg or Stan O’Neal or even George Bush. The most formidable enemy of the American economy is Rube Goldberg. Jenkins starts by discussing the complex set of rules that have enabled autoworkers to…
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McCain Gets More Gay Votes Than Bush
I meant to follow up in a more timely way on an earlier post about the conservative gay vote. From that earlier post: Along the same lines, I also want to note estimates that nearly one out of every four gay voters pulled the lever for Bush in 2004 (as did I), despite Bush’s odious…
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87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo Pledge
This week brings further reminders of why breaking that pledge will be the better part of valor. Many of the Gitmo detainees are Very Bad People, and there’s no good option for relocating them.