Saturday, January 28, 2006

Lost in Yonkers   The Republican party in New York has not gotten any less hapless since I last wrote about them.  The new frontrunner for their nomination for governor is Tom Golisano, an eccentric billionaire who has repeatedly run for governor of the liberal state in the past by bashing the Republican party for not being nearly conservative enough.  He has suggested he will spend $125 million on the campaign, which, as we know from the Bloomberg experience, is about right to buy the mayorship of New York City, but is probably not enough to buy the governorship of the state.  Meanwhile, and unfortunately, we are being spared the spectacle of the son-in-law of Richard Nixon running against the wife of Bill Clinton.  Edward Cox concedes he couldn't run a credible campaign against her:  Which is no loss in terms of competitive politics, but a tremendous loss in terms of political theater.  I, for one, wanted to see Tricia Nixon Cox on the campaign trail.  Instead, the only remaining Republican who has not withdrawn from the ballot against Hillary Clinton is an obscure ex-mayor of Yonkers.  His campaign chooses to believe that Senator Clinton is underestimating him, when all evidence suggests she has precisely placed the level of threat which he mounts against her future political prospects:  Which is somewhere between slimmest, and less than zero. 11:45:50 PM    comment []

Download This!   The Ropers-Revolver  Let's take a moment and return to the golden days of yesteryear.  It was 1995, and the Ropers were on Slumberland Records, and that band and that label and this song are three reasons why those days were golden, and the nights were good.  A piece of sunshiney, beautifully mellow pop. 8:01:03 AM    comment []