Tough Time For Democrats- December 18, 2003 The night before the announcement of Saddam's capture (round about the time that the tyrant was having a flashlight shone up his nose) I was at a media-heavy Manhattan dinner party that vividly dramatized the pre-spider hole mood. The guests -- mostly Democrats, with a smattering of moderate Republicans -- were unanimously kissing off Bush. It had been a particularly obnoxious week for a crowd that favors a more metrosexual approach to foreign relations: The Pentagon had displayed its...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/12/18/AR2005033112557.html?nav=r... Paris Hilton, in an Age Beyond Embarrassment- December 11, 2003 The success of society babe Paris Hilton's reality TV show "The Simple Life," hard on the heels of the bootleg porn tape showing her steamily in flagrante delicto with her dirtbag then-boyfriend Rick Solomon, proves once again there is no such thing as bad press. We live in the post-embarrassment age. New promotional and marketing offers are pouring in for Paris, and a sequel (to the Fox series, not the sex tape) is in the works. Today, if some private sex act of yours winds up on the...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/12/11/AR2005033112461.html?nav=r... |