yes - this lady can write - I guess that's how she got a gig as presidential speechwriter
I mean, whatever the hell got into her?
What a great writer! The column she wrote immediately after 9/11, about watching firemen and policemen and construction workers, was her greatest.
Well, I do agree with her on this one. I thought Tom Wolfe went "over the top" with his praise for Hunter Thompson, too.
Thompson was a freak show - which is fine, every age probably needs its freak show - but he somehow convinced the gullible that journalism was really nothing but the journalist's personal freak show. In other words, it was all about the journalist, his powers to shock and disgust, and manipulate what he saw; and nothing about reporting.
When I read that Hunter Thompson killed himself by sticking a pistol in his mouth while on the phone with his ex-wife and son, I knew that all we were dealing with was a massive out-of-control ego that could have eaten Manhattan. I hope he repented between the saddle and the ground.
A college president of our acquaintance once said that people in academia get so hot and bothered about situations like this because the stakes are so low.
Why is St. Joseph Cupertino the obvious patron saint of the Internet? Because he flew through the air, lifted by truth. Because no establishment could keep him down. Because he empowered common people. Because they in fact saw his power before the elites of the time did. And because it could not be an accident that the center of the invention of the Internet, ground zero of Silicon Valley, is Cupertino, Calif., named for the saint centuries ago.
But the real reason was listed in the paragraph previous. Once you get hooked into the internet you never leave your cell
Noonan mentions "God" eleven times in this article! That's too much "God".