Jimmy Margulies comments on the timing of John McCain’s surgery, which neatly saved Obamacare, as well as saving the GOP from another faceplant.My initial reaction to the announcement was that it was a put-up, that McCain purposefully scheduled the procedure to stall the vote, but I’ve since seen some analysis that indicates it was not […]
Today is Canada Day, and so we’ll salute our neighbors to the North on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Confederation or perhaps not, as Michael de Adder suggests, given that only parts of Canada confederated on that date.However, that’s when they mark their start as a nation and, on the 100th anniversary, they […]
Friend of the Blog Ann Telnaes won the Reuben last night, or, more precisely, “the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.” (The other awards are technically not “Reubens” though they all get called that.)And she deserved it. And, yes, I’m prejudiced.And isn’t it nice when personal prejudice is backed up by outrageously good […]
Pajama Diaries on a common issue for those of us who work at home: When does the factory whistle blow?There’s always been spill-over, at least among people with a tendency to be workaholics. I remember one publisher I worked for who would walk out to her car every night with a double armload of ledgers and […]