While The Press Was Looking Up Another Skirt

Nero fiddled; Murdoch gives you porn

At the moment of Eliot Spitzer’s strange fall from grace — as a “john” in a Federal investigation involving wiretaps, cyber-surveillance and lord-knows-what-else — I instantly flashed on my February 15 posting (“While The Press Was Looking Up Britney’s Skirt”), and thought: Is this the March payback for Spitzer’s brave [...]

While America Was Sliming

The Bush Administration, like rust, never sleeps.

The Ship of State is in a State
While, predictably, the self-centered, self-absorbed, masturbatory Manhattan press was navel gazing (and pud pulling) to the exclusion of all else — because, as we all know, everyone else in the USA lives and dies to know what’s happening in The Big Apple, [...]