Sanjay Gupta has reportedly told Obama thanks, but no thanks–he’d prefer to stick with his TV gig for the time being than serve as Surgeon General. I guess it shows how closely I was paying attention that I didn’t realize he hadn’t been officially nominated for the post yet. That must mean one of two [...]
Before doing anything else, click here to watch Jon Stewart’s thoroughly enjoyable takedown of The Totally Unbearable Inanity of CNBC.
It didn’t make much news–didn’t even make it to the front page of the Los Angeles Times–but on Tuesday, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won a second term. Journalist (and LA resident) T.A. Frank writes up the underwhelming election: Antonio Villaraigosa has been ambitious in rhetoric but modest in achievements. A pledge to plant a million [...]
It takes a fair amount of amnesia for a political spinmeister like Pete Wehner–who spent six years spreading venom as Karl Rove’s designated hitter–to chastise various Obama capos for attempting to transform the GOP into the POL (Party of Limbaugh). It’s today installment of the OMG hysteria that has infected various Republican hacks as their ship [...]
While we’re on the subject on non-political news, I thought I’d share my latest attempt at travel writing. For anyone in DC, Spirit Airlines flies from Reagan National to Cartagena for $400 roundtrip…
Every great hero needs a nemesis to overcome – look at how engrossed the nation became with Barack Obama’s epic struggle for the Democratic nomination with Hillary Clinton. In their search for an opponent after the defeat of John McCain, Democrats and the media have alternately tried to promote Rush Limbaugh, Eric Cantor, Sarah Palin [...]
And how it might hit yours, too: Like most journalists, I do my best to operate in a comfort zone of detachment. But the subject of my cover story in the upcoming edition of TIME is one about which I won’t claim the slightest bit of objectivity. It is about my brother Patrick. Last summer, [...]
I’ve been trying to work up some sort of outrage over some piece of the whole Rush Limbaugh hoo-hah, but there are just some days when I have had it up to here with political squabbles and instead go looking for escapist reading to distract me. If, like me, you’re in need of a few [...]
For months now the weekly Senate policy lunches have been a mess of hundreds of journalists packed into scrums and horded at top decibel by Capitol Police and the Secret Service trying to hack a path for visitors like the president, the vice president and Rahm Emanuel. That is, until this week. Yesterday, a few [...]
