it was a refreshing issue juicy details, well written. Too bad that out-of-touch GOP apologia still manages to creep in: "The two senators [McCain, Lieberman] were fellow romantics, deeply imbued with a sense of righteousness and honor."
He looks like someone who has peculiar, unsavory personal habits. Like someone who picks his nose while watching TV and smears the deposits under his chair. Like someone who sniffs his toilet paper after he wipes himself.
This piece was packed chock-a-block with crap that I've already read/heard/assumed/divined, etc. This isn't a criticism of the piece as much as it's a wake-up call that I need to get a frigging life.
But seriously, no Commies this week? I guess Richard's California interlude is the explanation? Anyone? Help. Me. Please? It's like the highlight of my weekend.
@rosaluxembourgeoise: An hour ago I was stuck in traffic behind a plumber's truck. On the back was a garish bumper sticker reading "SARAH" in huge letters with a red apostrophe. Beneath, in small type, it read "McCain / Palin."
@Weegee's bored: Lizard-brain Nixon atavism. Remember, the Watergate thugs were called "plumbers". And at least half of them now have jobs on FOX News.
(Rick Perlstein's Nixonland has been invaluable campaign season reading- startling how little changes, amazing that disgraces like Liddy, Rove, and Buchanan are received in polite company, rehabilitated, considering what they were up to back then, filthy-tricks department.)
I see a certain Dentonesque irony created by a website constantly reporting the lay-offs in the magazine industry and then -- Thanks, Gawker! -- a summary of this special issue so that I don't have to read -- let alone buy -- the bloody thing.
@smithhimself: if you seriously aren't going to read a 5,000 page piece which was already readily available online (starting a couple days ago) because ten paragraphs of it were reposted on other websites...well...sir...you weren't going to read it in the first place.
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What IS it about plumbers?
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(Rick Perlstein's Nixonland has been invaluable campaign season reading- startling how little changes, amazing that disgraces like Liddy, Rove, and Buchanan are received in polite company, rehabilitated, considering what they were up to back then, filthy-tricks department.)
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Poor guy. If he would just let the gay out he would immediately grow more liberal and be endlessly more likable.
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