When my Dad was practicing criminal law in Portland in the 1960’s, he exposed my innocent, Holy Names educated mother to a lot of street smarts and lingo that stuck with her forever, and every so often she would unexpectedly astonish me with some expression or term more suited to a jaded beat cop than [...]
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If President Lincoln had had a crystal ball, when told the South was seceding, he’d have said, “Woo hoo!” Lord, I wish he had. Especially today. Setting aside the thousands dead, cities destroyed, and money wasted, as decisions go, it was like parents who guiltily decided, once again, to take in their delinquent, worthless [...]
Well, it seems that for at least the dozenth time, the Government is going to wait a bit longer to release the torture documents it’s been sitting on, like a proud and protective hen, for all these years. The only difference is that all this determined sitting is supposed to prevent, rather than promote, any [...]
Turns out that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, natch, since he was on TV, found Gov. Mark “tan lines” Sanford’s recent unpleasantness “sad and troubling and hypocritical.” To which the Hag would add “hilarious and predictable and typical,” if I didn’t know how to string words together grammatically. Pawlenty’s complaint? That “the words and [...]
The mercurial cracker governor from a tooth-deprived armpit of the Old Confederacy, Mark Sanford, has up and confessed his affair with a south-of the-border tamale, whose hotness turned out to be more important than Father’s Day with his four (!) sons, the names of whom were fortunately included in his prepared statement on the subject, [...]
Two more Italian women have stepped forward to allege Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi entertained them privately, perhaps paying for sex or accepting a suggestion of bribery for sex.
CHNN’s Harlan Harrington has been hop-scotching around Italy in the CHNN flying boat – from Rome to Naples to Sardinia and Milan – trying to stay abreast [...]
Italians may be yawning more than chattering about the sudden appearance late last week of pictures of nude Italian women, published by the Spanish newspaper El Pais and reportedly taken at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Sardinia retreat.
The pictures, also distributed widely on Italian news websites – and in defiance of legal threats issued by lawyers [...]
Reading somewhat dumbfoundedly the meandering and retarded but mercifully brief something or other, evidently scrawled in crayon on the nursing home wallpaper by my own former Senator, Bob Packwood of Oregon, that the ever-forgiving New York Times saw fit to publish today, I kinda felt sorry for the old heel. How the mighty senator, a [...]
Boy oh boy, you can bet that John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Dick Cheney, et al are as jealous as can be right now, because a client of their favorite law firm, Baker Botts, just accidentally showed them how torture is really done, and these guys don’t need any stinking memos, either. It seems that over [...]
Newsweek has just published a lengthy, ground-breaking article about Eliot Spitzer, perhaps erroneously placed under the heading “politics,” based on numerous probing and insightful personal interviews with crack reporter Jonathan Darman (son of Richard?), who really took an arresting but sadly no longer novel approach to such a story. At least one of two possible [...]