The shoe being on the other foot, Tim Russert of NBC took the opportunity of being interviewed by Brian Lamb on Washington Journal this morning to complain about an interview of him that the Times Magazine ran on Mother’s Day….
Right now we’re in a Hillary moment, already discussing whether she will be the nominee, and I hear Democratic friends say, “Hillary’s baggage,” and worrying about the distraction it could cause. Yesterday a friend said to me, “Those Clinton haters…
caption The keen reader will note that I complain about having gone to Harvard, all the way to the bank. O.K. But I was a University of Michigan student trapped in a Harvard student’s body. Here’s my latest complaint. According…
I see now that the Dixie Chicks are on this week’s cover of Time. (Sorry, I’m always the last to know). Now they’re “Radical.” Please. I tried to get at the bogusness of their political positioning earlier this week. But…
I like this Al Gore moment, I hope it lasts a long time. (Heck, I was for him becoming President back in ’99, but my former party failed me on that). Al Gore is doing a truly great thing. Wired…
Maurice Sendak once said that to me. He was pissed. Duh. It’s a long story. I mention it because of my Clinton item yesterday, when I wrote something like—I don’t want to even look at it—”I genuinely wish the Clintons…
Something popped out of yesterday’s Times report on the Libby-Cheney leak investigation: the name Joseph C. Wilson IV. I thought the ambassador’s name was Joe Wilson, or as his book, The Politics of Truth, is bylined, Joseph Wilson. I was…
A reader has already nailed me, below, for the Clinton girlfriend item, saying Where are you going with this? You know, they’re right; I like gossip. I just do. It’s bad, I can rationalize it a zillion ways and quote…