What if …
I haven’t talked to a politician in more than a week, but I’m sure that in the days following last week’s gubernatorial election, many Democrats were probably asking themselves the age old “What if?” Of course, it’s just an exercise in self-flagellation on the morning after by the leaders of the Party of Can’t (as [...]
Coming out curmudgeon
I can’t tell you when it happened, or how it happened for that matter, but it seems I hate everything. Like a cancer, I think it started small, buried somewhere in my brain, growing slowly but inexorably. Being home during the day a lot more has not helped matters. The fact that Jerry Springer is [...]
Hell to the chief
As the kids today say: OMG! or FML! However you put it, New Jersey is waking up to the reality of Governor-elect Chris Christie. I won’t say that I called it months ago, but for Democrats, it looked bad over the summer and ultimately stayed that way. Jon Corzine’s uninspired, uninspiring campaign was the logical [...]
Election day ennui
I always tell people that I don’t vote. And, usually, I don’t. A lot of people are highly offended by this and laugh when I tell them that, as a journalist, I think that voting is contrary to my public mission. I don’t want to present myself with a possible conflict (real or imagined) when [...]








