Well, for the 11.86 of you who come by on an average day, I've been without DSL at my summer location but am over it now.
One thing middle aged male politicians can't seem to get over is the allure of younger women, viz. Fred Thompson and now, Sharpe James. As the two pictures linked in the following sentence show, editors seem to be now using news photos to add "page 6" sex appeal into the nation's leading papers (watch out Wall Street Journal!). Here, the Washington Post ran a photo showing Thompson's fascinated, if descending, gaze towards his wife, and here,(login required) the New York Times shows a picture of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James' main squeeze(s).
For a more serious (as well as completely hilarious) account of politics, gender differences and the press, read as I am reading now Connie Schultz' book, "and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man," about her husband, Sherrod Brown's successful race for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat. It would be friendly to buy her book while she's still on her book tour--publishers like that sort of thing.
Finally, may I thank the as always essential Daniel Schorr, who today filed this report on the latest batch of documents and tapes released by the Nixon archives. As I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor (quoting Bob Woodward),Watergate is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Along with a fascination with Richard Nixon, Schorr and I also have both written for the Christian Science Monitor, he on a weekly basis and me from time to time. Once n a D.C. restaurant I had the opportunity to introduce myself and say that I had an op-ed in the previous Friday's edition, when he was briefly out of commission. It had been one of those serendipitous moments when I had an idea and brought it before an editor just when she needed something like it, and I was grateful for the sale.
"I couldn't do my column that week, I was sick, you know," Schorr told me.
"I know," I said, "I'm glad to hear you're feeling better."
"No you're not!" he said. We shared a laugh. "That's right," I offered, "I need the ink!"
And we need all the Watergate wallowing we can get. Including, may I say, the delicious and thrilling Broadway play Frost/Nixon. More on that later, but suffice it to say I'm sure that I was the only member of the audience who owns not one, but two copies of the original vinyl box set of the actual interviews (one is a back-up).
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