If the kind of gotcha journalism that so irritates John McCain and Sarah Palin were more woven into the fabric of our civic life, we might not be in the mess now consuming us.
Invoking greed to explain what happened with Wall Street actually explains little. The mystery isn't why people are greedy; it's how greed gets the better of them.
Ninety minutes of John McCain making faces was more than enough for a lifetime. It's hard to imagine anyone willingly inviting that antic lemon-sucking grinfest into their homes for the next four years.
Listening to Colin Powell endorse Barack Obama, I had the same divided feelings I did last spring, when I heard him speak at my daughter's high school graduation.
It appears to be Peter Feldman of the McCain campaign -- not the police -- who told reporters that Ashley Todd's (fictional) big black assailant said to her, "You're with the McCain campaign? I'm going to teach you a lesson."
