If things turn out the way it looks right now, John Kerry will be the Democratic candidate for President. Up till now everyone has been saying “Anyone but Bush.” Now it isn’t “anyone” anymore – its Kerry. From what I’ve learned about Kerry so far, I don’t think I’ll have any major problems giving him [...]
I was going to spend some time trying to sort out all the news coming out of Haiti, but fortunately, Jeanne D’Arc has already done just that.
Although the NY Times occasionally has excellent stories, I never expect much from it. So I wasn’t surprised to learn that neither does the staff at the Times: The antipathy directed toward The Times Magazine by many of the daily paper’s writers and editors is decades old. Standards at the magazine are deficient, many say; [...]