I’ve had a bad year with automobiles. I’ve driven nearly ten cars by my own estimation as I’ve dealt with the aftermath of two significant car accidents. I had a crazy Jean Tortelli-looking blonde with a migraine run a redlight last June and hit me head-on, destroying three cars, including my own, and doing another [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Making Sausages: Wonkery Wankery’
March 11, 2008
Blood-Red Ed
I’m not one of these people who can claim “some of my best friends are Republicans.” I think I know more black people than I do Republicans. I have two Republican brothers: One is a pocketbook Republican, I think, and we rarely talk anyway, and the other is a very intelligent and passionate Dick Cheney [...]
February 29, 2008
Dead Precedence: What If?
It’s the elephant in the living room that the candidates ignore as willfully as so many of us mere mortals, but as the 2008 Presidential race winnows down to a handful of inevitable electables, it’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask: What if one of them dies?
We tend to forget now, but from 1963-81, pursuing [...]
