Change You Can Believe In Only Too Well

Manu Raju reports in Politico on the “Revolving door for health care aides”: Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the...

Putting Things In Perspective

Arthur S. Mole —1889-1983— was an English commercial photographer  who took a series of  striking and innovative “living photographs” of American soldiers during and after World War One.  Working with his American colleague John D. Thomas, Mole organized...

Dumbing Decorum Down

Over at Politico, Glenn Thrush highlights a new ukase from House of Representatives Rules Commitee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter. Talk about breaking a butterfly on a wheel…..   Instead of allowing his own sense of shame and/or his colleagues’ contumely to...

Edward Kennedy: Watergate’s “Hidden Hand”

On today’s Daily Beast, Chris Matthews exalts Senator Edward Kennedy’s prominent —indeed, in Matthews’ telling, pivotal— but hitherto largely unheralded role in using Watergate to cripple the Nixon administration and end the Nixon presidency. The headline...

Frost/Nixon Is Forever

Now that Frost/Nixon is comfortably settled in the racks of your local Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, and the touring production with Stacy Keach has run its course, Peter Morgan’s play has started to be produced in repertory theater, with the Austin...

Larry Gelbart, 1928-2009

As I write, either on TV Land or the Hallmark Channel, the inevitable strains of Johnny Mandel’s “Suicide Is Painless” are beginning, the chopper is coming down, and the men and women of the 4077th are getting ready for another session of OR drama...