Archive for August, 2005


31
Aug

It is Bad and Getting Much Worse

NEW ORLEANS: GOING, GOING…
The humorist Roy Blount had written a paragraph that now seems not so much funny as prophetic:

“New Orleans is nobody’s oyster. It is situated, however, like a served-up oyster - the half-shell being the levees that keep Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River from engulfing the city. New Orleans lies several […]


31
Aug

Mind Over Media (continuing)

Something to admire from Bob Pitts of the Miami Herald:

“And then Bob Costas said no.
“Maybe you didn’t hear about it. There’s so much news to keep track of, after all, what with Paris Hilton maybe or maybe not getting married, Angelina Jolie maybe or maybe not sleeping with Brad Pitt and Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs […]


31
Aug

Letters and Laments

Lynne Glasner writes about our esteemed Vice President:

“Did anyone else hear a report on Cheney’s health? WINS (AM in NYC) on Friday or Saturday reported that Cheney was ill and no one seems to know of his whereabouts. Nothing but Silence since then, either on WINS or other. No mention at all in Google to […]

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