One Fine Jay

Katie Couric and her unwashed middle

That woman. She stepped in it deep yesterday with this feature by Howard Kurtz on the Daily Beast, where she talks about the “great unwashed middle of the country.” That same middle of the country has a clear understanding of what “unwashed” means, and I don’t think it means what that woman thinks it means.… Continue reading this entry

Making the most of Christine O’Donnell

It was hard to miss the political firefight preceding the Delaware senate GOP primary. Mike Castle would’ve been a shoo-in, but he likely would’ve been a political loss in office. (He was a Liberal Republican, and now we would never know how much “we” could’ve kept him in line for major votes.)  Conservative activists considered… Continue reading this entry

On Tyler Clementi’s suicide

I was thrown into a funk over the news of Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide after a terrible, terrible prank was played on him. His roomate snuck in a webcam and broadcast Tyler’s tryst with another man over the Internet, without his knowledge. The situation was too much, and he committed suicide by… Continue reading this entry