The REAL story

| June 24, 2009

South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, as everyone now knows, is back at home and work, after a mysterious disappearance of several days’ duration. He claims to have had an affair. I have an alternate theory. Politicians can be outed as being gay, they can be busted on video doing drugs, they can be nailed in […]

Quote of the Day

| June 22, 2009

On the death of the young Iranian woman known as Neda: I finally looked at her picture, and she looked familiar somehow. I think we have a statue of her in the harbor at New York. Delacroix caught a glimpse of her once on a barricade in Paris. She carried water to the cannon crews […]