Last Call: Queen Hillary
Mason, Jackie & Felder, Raoul
Al, Al, and Anthony NEW YORK TIMES The Constitution be damned, the estimable Times of Liberal orthodoxy ends a report on Al-Gore's departure from a conquered redoubt with what has become for the...
...Kaufman, engages in the kind of shameless name-dropping that has earned Saloon its upscale audience: The day before John Lennon got shot, I got arrested...
...Bush...
...December 28, 2000) SAL0N.COM The associate managing editor of Saloon, King (yes, King...
...It hadn't been circumcised, and probably it was criminal...
...Tuesday I got called out of class by the newspaper advisor, who was really the cheerleader advisor (this was post-Prop...
...Real courage or mettle in foreign policy, despite the reputation of poll-driven benign neglect...
...It recently devoted its entire editorial space, 40 inches long, to demand that he be indicted after he leaves office for false statements about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky...
...So we spent several hours of Sunday morning getting processed at the local police station and waiting for our bitterly disappointed parents to come pick us up...
...But that's another story...
...Gore left the Capitol with little pomp, but surely with questions about a democracy that does not award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote...
...I was sitting in the back of a car in the parking lot of a mall in Brea, Calif., smoking marijuana with two buddies before a midnight movie showing of...I forget what...
...And for all Mr...
...He won nearly 600,000 more votes nationwide than Mr...
...These include: An excellence of appointments unsurpassed since the Roosevelt administration...
...January 21, 2001) NEW YORK TIMES In the incunabular pages of Bush II attorney general nominee John Ashcroft's bona fides are confirmed by no less an authority than Anthony Lewis, BS: Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri is on the extreme right of American politics...
...January 13, 2001) HARPERS Observations physiological and aesthetic of the last election for the off-beat readers of Lewis Lapham's musky column in an American museum: Astonishingly, and for the first time in twelve months, the election news was about something other than Al Gore's hairstyle or George Bush's English springer spaniel...
...Today, Mr...
...sentence, Lennon was killed...
...On Monday, as I served the first day of my grounded-for-LIFE...
...January 8, 2001) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ¦ March 2001 109HE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ¦ March 2001 109...
...I did write some dumb thing, but only after having spent most of the day goofing around in the library with Ellen Leppek, who a few years later wrote me that in her job as a London call girl she'd had sex with Moammar Gadhafi...
...Clinton's morality crises, this was, for the most part, an administration of exceptionally high standards...
...December 30, 2000) NEW YORK TIMES The Liberal Mind revisited—a distinguished progressive voice solemnizing on the op-ed page of the esteemed Times dethrones the John Birch Society, replacing it with a truly alarming institution: The leading voice of the far right, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, attacked the president relentlessly for "scandals...
...13 California), who wanted me to write a tearful essay about the tragic loss of John Lennon...
...My friend Stacy Flanders called me up and said, "Kind of a shitter of a week so far, huh...
...December 8, 2000) RIVERA LIVE Toilet talk from Geraldo Rivera to the Hon...
...As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee he worked to block the confirmation process, without a hearing, of any judicial nominee he suspected of the faintest liberal taint...
...Few of the people in the broadcast studios were old enough to remember ever having seen such a thing as democracy—the living organism as opposed to the old paintings and the marble statues—and judging by the startled expressions in their faces, they didn't like the look of it...
...January 2001) WALL STREET JOURNAL Al Hunt, peerless practitioner of Reverse Journalism, devotes himself to his craft in which everything he reports is precisely the reverse of the truth: But there are a number of other weighty but less recognized Clinton successes...
...Xavier Becerra (D-California): "Are you going to shoot your wad on Linda Chavez and then let John Ashcroft sneak in the back door...
...Al, Al, and Anthony NEW YORK TIMES The Constitution be damned, the estimable Times of Liberal orthodoxy ends a report on Al-Gore's departure from a conquered redoubt with what has become for the orthodox an idee fixe...
Vol. 34 • March 2001 • No. 2
