different this time

I’m doing something different this time around.  When I can, I’m ignoring the inflection of their voices and the roar of the crowds, the color of their skin and their age, their suits and posture, their party and the translations offered up every minute by professional pundits on every channel and across the dial.  I’m reading the words of their speeches and deciding for myself wha

This is one of those posts in which I imagine we're all standing around the sinks in a high school bathroom together, dishing on something we don't want the boys to know about.

In other words, if you're a guy, get the hell out of here. (Although you're welcome to return tomorrow! Bye now!)

U.S. Representative Zach Wamp has not faced a well-supported challenger in any of his re-election bids. Tennessee's congressional districts are gerrymandered enough; but the Third District was represented by a Democrat for twenty years (former Congresswoman Marilyn Lloyd). Rep.

I could have written every word of this endorsement of Fred Thompson. Some excerpts:

Dear Ms. Jong:

I read with great interest your post at the Huffington Post today and I’m writing you because I feel that there’s something wrong between us, some kind of great and terrible misunderstanding, and I’m not sure how to rectify it.