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HRC Parts The Fog And Seeks The Bottom
This take by TNR’s Michael Crowley on HRC’s start at State seems perceptive although tending towards soft HRC bashing. Its opening is appropriately evocative: The seventh floor of the U.S. State Department is a generally dreary place. Its employees roam hallways so long and confusing that they are color-coded for guidance. Fluorescent lights throw down [...]
Last Stand
Betrayal is in the air. Doubt spreads as Festivus approaches. Nitpickers pounced right after inauguration. They see collusion in the Citi Corp bailout. They also fail to grok that what’s good for Goldman Sachs is good for Goldman Sachs. “Just look at the timeline of the Citigroup deal,” says one leading Democratic consultant. “Just look [...]
When Enough Becomes Too Much?
Regardless how one feels about MSNBC/NBC, we should take a moment of silence for the passing of Tim Russert. All life is precious and all families feel the pain of loss; the hole in life that will never be filled. We wish you God speed Mr. Russert. Yet let us be clear. Mr. Russert in [...]
This scene is from “Sideways,” one of the great grown-up buddy/road trip movies of all time; for those who haven’t seen it, you’re depriving yourselves if you don’t rent it. Paul Giamatti’s character, Miles, is a mess of a man whose most damning and redeeming quality is his love of fine wine, hence his comic refusal to drink any “fucking Merlot.” What he ends up drinking a little further down the road provides one of the greatest excruciating movie laughs this side of “Meet the Fockers.” Later he redeems himself with a speech on the wonders of pinot noir that causes the lovely Virginia Madsen’s character to fall in love with him. And yes, I’d like to see Obama find the guts to stop triangulating us to death and take a fucking stand on something important. Spoiler alert: things turn out relatively well by the end of the movie. I’m not so sure the same will be said about Obama’s presidency.