While watching or reading about the headliners at the 2010 CPAC, the title of that great Stephen Sondheim song Send in the Clowns from the musical Little Night Music kept ringing in my head. Using some lines from that song, here in parenthesis are the kind of thoughts that are in the minds of the [...]
Well, it seems that, in the eyes of the gasbags, anyway, the Republicans are headed for a very big 2010… The heady days of the “Contract with America” are here again, though of course no one has bothered to read the fine print, partly because there isn’t any, but partly because they don’t care. You [...]
One of my longest-term relationships, and surely the longest that involved actual cohabitation, was with my college (and several years thereafter) roommate, Amanda Whittier. (not her real name, but one she gave out in bars, so it stuck for a whole lot of people… once on a third date she finally confessed it wasn’t really [...]
Back during the Clinton impeachment, which in light of our current predicament seems almost like a long lost golden era, the bilious Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote a blistering, spittle-flecked screed, mercilessly berating Americans for their lack of bloodlust for Clinton, based on a series of polls that showed that most people, [...]
For many years, my sister gave me gift subscriptions to New York Magazine, and I became an avid fan. Michael Woolf’s credulous boom-goosing was balanced out by Michael Tomasky’s scathing investigative journalism, and their ongoing coverage of the Rudy Chronicles was worth the price of admission. Then, in the wake of George Bush’s “election,” they [...]
UPDATE BELOW:
Back in 1996 fellow Portlander Molly Bordonaro, fresh from her first “job,” working at ALEC, a Washington-based righty hothouse wherein nasty legislation is nurtured into glorious bloom so it can then be transplanted in vulnerable states, came back home to run for US Congress, for the seat currently occupied by David Wu. As a [...]
Back in 1999, I wrote this piece, making fun of myself, mostly, to send around to friends, based on some unfortunate experiences I’d been having just then. Due to circumstances not entirely beyond my control, it ended up being published in our alternative weekly, Willamette Week, and it caused a bit of a stink when all [...]
I recently was able to access old writings from about ten years ago on my old computer, which certainly will come in handy when I’m too lazy or drunk to post… Here’s one from October 1999.
Entertaining in a Politically Correct World: Pitfalls for the Modern Hostess
The Politically Correct era has, as we all know, ushered [...]