Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Short Cuts

Just Trying to Help: If you are trying to sort out the current scandalette that doesn't even have a name yet - let's call it the Novak-Niger-Yellow-Cake-Ambassador Wilson-Victoria Plame-CIA-Carl Rove-Frog-Walk-Pile of Spaghetti for the moment just to keep it simple - we direct you to Andrew Sullivan this morning and a blog called The Rant. We've done all the reading for you and here's our bottom line. Fuggetaboutit. It all sounds and smells so vintage Terry McAuliffe you should save the brain cells. We will wake you if it ever gets interesting.

Poor Baby, Frowing Up: We loved this headline.

Divorcing Wesley: Most of the fun of following former Gen. Wesley Clark's campaign is the joy of watching the "big" media inching their way further out on the limb in their adoration of Epaulet Man. (One went so far as to say that "anyone who married a girl named Gertrude has to have character.") Sooner or later the General himself will saw off the limb. Wes Pruden in the Washington Times suggests the time approaches for the Clinton's to "re-look" (gotta love the word and concept) their support of the General. There's more. Check it out. Cool column.

Odd Duck: One of the more interesting things about Gray Davis is that a man who can get elected twice in an enormous state like California has no friends. None. Zip. Nada. Zero. In article after article it has been pointed out that his wife seems to be the only human who can stand him and he doesn't even have a dog. In Michael Lewis' amusing but too long piece in the Sunday Times magazine (we finally got to it because we are on jury duty stand-by and bored out of our skull) he tells us that even his neighbors in Sacramento can't stand him. We wonder if he knows this by now.

LDotterNote: Due to our answering the call of civic duty we are a bit backed up with our mail. We want to get notes off to those who have sent donations and wonderful notes by snail mail and we will, it just will take a little more time. We are finding that for some reason the state of New York doesn't want you on a jury when you tell the judge you want to put everyone in jail. We were told it's an attitude that will send one home early. We're going to try it again today.

-Your Choiceless But Still Civic Minded LComStaff