Notes From D.R. | Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene

So former FBI bigwig W. Mark Felt has been exposed as Deep Throat, the operative who helped to bring down Richard Nixon’s presidency in the 1970s. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are already claiming that the media will turn Felt into a left-wing folk hero because he essentially deposed a Republican president; I really can’t see that happening, because after all, Felt was an aide-de-camp to the notorious J. Edgar Hoover. (However, I’m sure that a lot of anti-Bush people are fantasizing this week about a 21st-century Deep Throat, someone who could present hardcore proof that Bush invaded Iraq knowing that there were no actual weapons of mass destruction…)

Looks like Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is having second thoughts
about running for the Senate next year. Come on, Mike. Don’t wimp out.
Get in the damn race. It’s yours to win.

More charges filed in the Milton Academy sex scandal…

Deval Patrick gains some financial momentum in his bid to become Massachusetts Governor–including some surprising Republican support!

Star Wars is still on top? No Sith!

Barack Obama, eat your heart out: Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele looks like he’ll run for the US Senate next year.

Bush is checking out Supreme Court replacements.

Whoever he selects is in for character debasement

by the Democrats, who are sitting back poppin’ their corks…

‘Cause for the first time since Thomas, they’ll have a chance to Bork.

Putting the fun in dysfunctional: A Tennessee mother hires a stripper for her underage son’s birthday party.

The Globe says that Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) could be mulling a run for governor next year. The ironic thing is, he could win a general election–but there’s no way he could win a Democratic primary. Seriously, does anyone think that progessive voters in this state will get behind a pro-life, pro-Iraq war Irish-Catholic from Southie? (Now, if Mitt Romney decides not to run again and Lynch switches parties and becomes a Republican, then the world is his like Tony Montana…)

No revenge here. I’m a lover, not a fighter…

2/1/99 (Gang shooting at Boston’s Copley Place mall)

2/8/99 (Admissions policies at Boston Latin, Vol. I)

3/1/99 (Feminist professor Mary Daly causes controversy at Boston College; this column was later reprinted in The American Spectator Online)

3/22/99 (Controversy over Boston’s METCO program)

3/29/99 (Gov. Paul Cellucci attempts to reinstate capital punishment)

4/5/99 (Funding for college student groups)

4/12/99 (Admissions policies at Boston Latin, Vol. II)

4/26/99 (Racial profiling)

5/3/99 (Famous last words)

No revenge here. I’m a lover, not a fighter…

2/1/99 (Gang shooting at Boston’s Copley Place mall)

2/8/99 (Admissions policies at Boston Latin, Vol. I)

3/1/99 (Feminist professor Mary Daly causes controversy at Boston College; this column was later reprinted in The American Spectator Online)

3/22/99 (Controversy over Boston’s METCO program)

3/29/99 (Gov. Paul Cellucci attempts to reinstate capital punishment)

4/5/99 (Funding for college student groups)

4/12/99 (Admissions policies at Boston Latin, Vol. II)

4/26/99 (Racial profiling)

5/3/99 (Famous last words)

My Boston University Daily Free Press articles from 1997 were posted last night. Here are the articles from 1998:

1/13/98 (My contempt for Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown)

1/26/98 (School vouchers)

2/2/98 (A Monica Lewinsky poem)

2/9/98 (The GOP and abortion, Vol. I)

3/2/98 (Gov. Paul Cellucci endorses gender segregation)

3/16/98 (The US Senate debates affirmative action)

3/23/98 (San Francisco’s school board takes political correctness to the extreme)

3/30/98 (The GOP and abortion, Vol. II)

4/6/98 (Primary Colors)

4/27/98 (Miscellaneous)

9/30/98 (New federal courthouse in Boston)

10/21/98 (The lynching of Matthew Shepard)

10/28/98 (Students from Boston Latin School involved in alleged sexual assault)

11/4/98 (Improving minority student performance in the Boston Public Schools)

My Boston University Daily Free Press articles from 1997 were posted last night. Here are the articles from 1998:

1/13/98 (My contempt for Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown)

1/26/98 (School vouchers)

2/2/98 (A Monica Lewinsky poem)

2/9/98 (The GOP and abortion, Vol. I)

3/2/98 (Gov. Paul Cellucci endorses gender segregation)

3/16/98 (The US Senate debates affirmative action)

3/23/98 (San Francisco’s school board takes political correctness to the extreme)

3/30/98 (The GOP and abortion, Vol. II)

4/6/98 (Primary Colors)

4/27/98 (Miscellaneous)

9/30/98 (New federal courthouse in Boston)

10/21/98 (The lynching of Matthew Shepard)

10/28/98 (Students from Boston Latin School involved in alleged sexual assault)

11/4/98 (Improving minority student performance in the Boston Public Schools)

Oliver Stone gets busted for DUI and drug possession in California.

Oliver Stone gets busted for DUI and drug possession in California.