Jim McCabe who covers golf for the Boston Globe, is one of the reasons the Globe has the best sports section in the nation, day in and day out. His golf notes in the Sunday Globe yesterday paid a unique tribute to Seve Ballesteros whose meltdown (12) at the 18th hole of the opening rouand… Continue reading
None of my favorite liberal bloggers have yet weighed in on Bush’s speech this past week. Which is a shame, because I like hearing what the other side thinks under unusual circumstances (speeches like this don’t happen every day). Clearly the new policy toward Arafat and the Palestinians is unlike any the U.S. has adopted… Continue reading
Living with It Dept. Perusing an obscure French philosopher on the subject of art, I came across something that probably should have been written by Stephen King, or Barbara Kingsolver—but never was: “Several writers have noted the feeling of discomfort experienced by the writer who carried within himself a work not yet written and which,… Continue reading
The Atlantic is re-running (via Arts & Letters) their in-depth piece on wine critic Robert Parker. In four parts, it details how Parker has become the most influential critic in the world—by talking about wine. Parker has a widely read newsletter (with over 40,000 subscribers) and he has raised the ire of French vineyard owners… Continue reading
What if there was no Deep Throat? Here’s Mickey Kaus today on an interesting aspect of the Washington Post under Ben Bradlee at the time of the Watergate scandal: …something the Post’s editor Ben Bradlee instinctively understood — you keep the story going, with hit after little hit, which gets people talking, which panics sources… Continue reading