A Bloomberg Candidacy
Friday, May 18th, 2007 Posted in Politics | No Comments »Just when I was losing all interest (and hope) in the 2008 election, The Drudge Report hit me with a surprise the other day. Michael Bloomberg, the socially liberal, fiscally conservative, and wildly popular Mayor of New York is ...
The End of the Blair Era
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Posted in Politics | No Comments »Throughout the 1990s, Tony Blair was frequently compared to Bill Clinton--a distinct mistake for those whose shallow ideological comparisons defined the administrations of each of these men. The end of the Blair government more closely resembles the fall from ...
The Blogosphere Buzzes about Ron Paul
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Posted in Politics, Web 2.0 | No Comments »Texas U.S. Congressman Ron Paul has hit a major milestone in his interesting political career. I pulled up Technorati.com tonight to find that the most searched-for term in the blogosphere is nothing other than "Ron Paul." For an ...
Living at Charing Cross
Saturday, May 5th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The center of London is the Charing Cross railway station. Samuel Johnson once said "I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." Perhaps this is why the poet Francis Thompson used Charing Cross as ...