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Posted At : September 29, 2008 04:19 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Try as I might, my prose never achieves the rapier-like wit to which it aspires. So I endeavor to read as much as I can, in desperate hope of betterment. For instance, maybe it's the lingering influence of William F. Buckley and George Will, but nobody zings the current strife within the GOP with such ... such elegance as a Republican man of letters. Two examples:
"The bottom line of today, however they try to spin it, is that a Republican president failed to win more than a third of his own party in the House in what most regard as a financial emergency. The collapse of the Republican party as a coherent organization is pretty much complete -- and it's silly to blame Nancy Pelosi. Bush's Republicans increasingly remind me of [John] Major's Tories, avant le déluge" -- Andrew Sullivan, who provides a video bonus.
Or this:
"The entire Palin episode has been like some drunken bacchanalia that gave way to a terrified awakening several weeks too late." -- Daniel Larison in The American Conservative.
Damn, I wish I could write so deftly and with such drollery.
On the subject of good writing, the Las Vegas Business Press' Valerie Miller was singled out as Nevada's outstanding weekly newspaper reporter. Having worked with Valerie for two years, I am well aware of her tenacity and thoroughness. Once she's got her hooks into a story, she doesn't relent until it's well and truly wrapped up. Since, as of Monday afternoon, the Bidness Press can't be bothered to acknowledge Ms. Miller's achievement on its home page, I'll raise a cyber-glass to her health here.
The Review-Journal's Joan Whitely and the Sun's Alexandra Berzon also received well-merited recognition for their persistent coverage of construction improprieties and safety hazards on the Vegas Strip. The Sun's enviably-sourced labor reporter Michael Mishak was named Journalist of Merit, as well he should have been. Kudos all around.
Can't cope with the Information Age, in which bloggers routinely eat your lunch? Just stick your fingers in your ears and holler "La, la, la, I can't hear you!" Of course, it wasn't so long ago that these crusty old coots were telling anybody who'd listen that Gutenberg's printing press was too cumbersome to compete with ink and parchment.
Andrew hasn't been a Republican since before he met his husband. Unfortunately, especially during the Palin feeding frenzy, he became an unethical parody of his former self.
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