Enemy of the Week
Patty Cake
12.20.02
A special tribute to Trent Lott’s unlikely successor. PLUS: Who’ll be the Enemy of the Year? Nominations welcome. Winner to be crowned on Dec. 27.
A special tribute to Trent Lott’s unlikely successor. PLUS: Who’ll be the Enemy of the Year? Nominations welcome. Winner to be crowned on Dec. 27.
Trent Lott did a wrong and hurtful thing. But let’s look at a few points that have not been as thoroughly looked at as they might.
The damaged Senate leader has less support among his colleagues than he wants to know.
Sit in on a Faculty Senate Council meeting and fall into reveries about what the shaggy '60s set in motion.
It’s flat and you can’t get the taste out of your mouth — and you wonder if Warren Buffett had a hand in serving it up.
Was Muhammad a seventh-century Bill Moyers? PBS makes a strong case he most certainly was.
The reason for its reluctance to join us in war against the abettors of terrorism.
Don Nickles is A-OK. Which sound a Lott more than what’s being said about the GOP Senate leader. Then there’s Sen. Peter Fitzgerald? Plus Lotts more …
Anyone who blunders as egregiously as Trent Lott is not fit for leadership.
The futility of Republican kowtowing to black voters.
Welcome to the ethos of mainstream press reporting on global climate change.
Even better than Jennifer Lopez as a post-feminist Cinderella whom no self-respecting sensitive male dare try to rescue is Ralph Fiennes as a Republican superstar of the New York State Assembly!
He has never been much of an ideologue, and as a senator he has been known mostly for his helmet-like head of hair and his devotion to the shipyards in Pascagoula.
Like its first president, an elite university remains committed to the pursuit of a superior humanity unblemished by bad blood.
How to lose an Illinois seat. Can a Pennsylvania seat be saved?
Back when anyone wanting to be president didn’t have to jump into an SNL hot tub or sit down with Lesley Stahl.
Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career.
Jackie Mason’s call. How about Kay Bailey Hutchison? Pete Rose’s new lawyers — and final prosecutor. Tyrrell’s West Bank reception. Plus lots more.
The plot thickens: Nickles, Frist, McConnell, Senator X? Before Christmas or after the New Year? Stay tuned (though not to Larry King).
The president tried to draw a line in the Iraqi sand with the last U.N. resolution and failed. Saddam has defied the world yet again, and the U.N. is doing nothing about it.
The author feels that the majority leader owes another aggrieved minority — namely himself — a heartfelt apology.
How does the value of an Israeli life become so cheap, that we accept the idea that we have to sacrifice hundreds of lives on a yearly basis in order to exist in the state of Israel?
How to remove Trent Lott but retain the Senate. PLUS: Al Gore’s real reason for quitting.
He is not the first politician with a tin ear or his foot in his mouth, but he is one the Republicans cannot afford as their leader.
So you think John Snow resigned from the club to save himself embarrassment?
Pete Rose should never be reinstated. And Bud Selig should be excommunicated.
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