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Daily Archives: December 9th, 2008

One Frankenstein, Two Monsters

John McCain is gone, but Sarah Palin, lives on. If worse comes to worst, McCain may live on in history as the man who gave a dangerous demagogue her start on the national stage. McCain also gave us Joe the Plumber, and like Frankenstein’s monster, he has turned on his creator: When I was on […]

Have yourself a very broccoli Christmas

People are amazing.

Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up-Blagojevich/Craig Edition

This is one of those times when I feel my own inadequacies as a writer with a peculiar intensity. How to do justice to the staggeringly audacious corruption of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich? Might I first observe that he makes John Rowland look like a piker-a rank amateur? How, one wonders, did this guy ever […]