One Negative to a Big November Democratic Party Win
The potential for so many more attempts at repeating the Joe Scarborough post-Congress media career. The horror, the horror...
Friday October 27, 2006 at 8:52am
Botswana, Croatia and Tonga
This week, Reporters Without Borders released its annual ranking of freedom of the press around the world, covering 168 countries. The United States, which ranked 17th when the study began in 2002, fell from 44 last year to 53 in 2006. We're now tied with Botswana, Croatia and Tonga. Other Western countries also slipped, including Japan, Denmark and France. The reasons are clearly defined on the Web site linked above.
Wednesday October 11, 2006 at 8:10am
So Much for "Smith"
Ray Liotta's series has been cancelled. I was trying to get into it. Way to pull the plug, CBS.
Monday October 2, 2006 at 11:25am
Killing Trees
Today's waste of newsprint:
Sebastian Mallaby. End of column basically says Democrats are no better than Republicans, although headlining it as "A Party Without Principles". It would be nice if the Washington Post would hire writers that might investigate WHY the two major political parties are without principles, if they actually believe that to be the case, instead of hacking on the party OUT OF POWER for 95% of an article, only to end with:
I'm not saying that Republicans are at all better, and of course elections breed some policy timidity.
Mahablog is right. Mallaby is softheaded, not so much on his point but his approach. It's the entire Congressional culture that is a problem, and the two party system culture. If Mallaby has a problem with that, fine, tackle them in even fashion. Unfortunately, there's a bigger problem right now - one party rule. Attacking Democrats for secondary issues doesn't help the nation's opportunity to fix a more dangerous problem, particularly when they are really not in position to deal with those secondary issues.