Keeper of the Clown Bell

Only the New York Times could publish a front page (above the fold) story about the plight of Child Sex Offenders in Iowa. According to the Times they are all packed in to seedy motels and trailer parks because the folks in Iowa don't want scumbags who sexually molest children living in family neighborhoods - how plebeian. I say - Only the New York Times - but I know that other fans of child molestation and sexual abuse might also feel the same disdain for the good people of Iowa. But the Times has cultivated and institutionalized a subversive alternative ethos that is now parody. This disposition was exemplified about 10 years ago, when Mayor Rudy Giuliani started to clean up (i.e push out the XXX rated peep show, pimps & whores, crack dealers and common criminals) that loitered around the NYTimes building on 42nd Street and Times Square in NYC and the Times editorialized AGAINST the gentrification of the area. That's right - I said against - the NYTimes argued that cleani

SOMETHING MUST BE SAID! Well actually... Marty Kaplan says it all on the Huffalump Post " If you wish Paul Wellstone or Bill Moyers were running, he's as close to them as they come. " But I say no one will ever cast a Presidential ballot for a man(?) named Dana. On Sunday R. Dana Feingold appeared on the ABC's This Week with Stephie Stephanopoulos and after suggesting that impeachment(?) of President Bush is justified he backed down to the following piece of idiocy. "A formal censure by Congress is an appropriate and responsible first step to assure the public that when the president thinks he can violate the law without consequences, Congress has the will to hold him accountable," Feingold said. To which the only proper response would have been (not that I would ever expect Stephie to say this - it is beyond his capacity of thought) - "Hold on you arrogant windbag - weren't you co-author of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001 which is a cl