Ok, I was out of town for a bit, went to see the GATES in New York, well worth the trip. I alsway enjoy a happening, and what could be better than an Art Happening? Central Park was mobbed on a windy, snowy overcast and cold february morning.
Meanwwhil, asFrank Rich notes, no enws is no longer good news, its just no news.
the administration continues to gringd up and spit out its adversaries, pretend it is fighting terrorists in Iraq instead of creating them, and strutting around like a cowboy in a b-grade western.
The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here: "WO weeks ago Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide. Next week Dan Rather commits ritual suicide, leaving the anchor chair at CBS prematurely as penance for his toxic National Guard story. The two journalists shared little but an abiding distaste - make that hatred in Thompson's case - for the Great Satan of 20th-century American politics, Richard Nixon. The best work of both was long behind them. Yet memories of that best work - not to mention the coincidental timing of their departures - only accentuate the vacuum in that cultural category we stubbornly insist on calling News. "