Let me say a few good words about The New York Times’ op-ed page.
Who's John Tierney's broker?
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Catch-22
Jonathan Rauch buries this striking fact in a parenthetical remark halfway into his latest National Journal column: “At least 22 people, including Rushdie’s Japanese translator, were killed as a consequence of the Rushdie affair.”
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Let them eat cake
The latest issue of Seattle’s The Stranger uses this year’s NARAL Chocolate for Choice fundraiser — an “evening of utter decadence . . . supporting a woman’s right to choose” — to look at the shifting politics of abortion, from the perspective of the left and the Democratic Party.
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Bottum Line
Joseph Bottum (alternately known as J. Bottum, or just Jody to friends and acquaintances) has a theatricality about him and so I expected that, in leaving the post of books and arts editor at The Weekly Standard to become editor of First Things, he would not go quietly. That expectation turns out to have been right on the money, but I should have doubled down on the bet.
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SaveTerri.com II
Another day, another stay in the Terri Schiavo case. On Wednesday, Judge George Greer extended the stay on Michael Schiavo’s plans to remove the tubes that deliver food and water to his brain-damaged wife. It was the second time this week that Terri was given a reprieve.
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Peeves make great pets
So you’re a reporter assigned to write a story about a new book coming out by the pope, his holiness, the Vicar of Christ, current occupant of the chair of St. Peter, that prince among princes of the church John Paul II. You comb through it for material and find that there is a lot there.
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SaveTerri.com
I take this piece, by the Canadian LifeSite, to be a reproduction from The Interim, the Toronto-based “pro-life, pro-family newspaper.” That would account for the odd dateline (“CYBERSPACE”) and for the author’s feeling it necessary to explain the terms blogs, bloggers and blogrolls.
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Major Lott's Law violation?
I wish John Tierney and Jacques Steinberg had supplied more info in their recent New York Times article on PBS. The piece begins with a pretty good lede — “It was no accident that PBS found itself turning to Elmo, the popular Sesame Street character, to lobby on Capitol Hill this week. There were not many options” — but then drops it without explanation. Google and Nexis were of little help.
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Obligatory Valentine's Day post
I never suspected I would have anything in common with Hindu hardliners, but then I read this report, titled “Hindu Hardliners Burn Valentine Cards.”
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