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On the Opinion Page: March 7, 2008

07Mar08

In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/The Anxiety Election The Short Version: It’s the economy, stupid. In his words: “[Democrats] can contrast the Clinton boom with the Bush bust; they can make the case that Republican economic ideology, with its fixation on privatization and deregulation, helped get us […]


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On the Opinion Page: March 4, 2008

04Mar08

In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/The $2 Trillion Nightmare The Short Version: In financial terms, the war in Iraq is not cheap. In his words: “The Bush administration has tried its best to conceal the horrendous costs of the war.” Score: A- Herbert delivers a column that […]


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On the Opinion Page: February 29, 2008

29Feb08

In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. David Brooks/Remembering the Mentor The Short Version: Even though he was a Nazi, I loved William F. Buckley. In her words: “Buckley was not only a giant celebrity, he lived in a manner of the haut monde.” Score: F (Foolish) In this column […]


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On the Continuing Failure of the Op-Ed Page of The Times To Accurately Portray Mike Huckabee as a Right-Wing Nutjob Whose Only Destiny is To Destroy Our Lives

11Dec07

Joining Frank Rich today in what can only be described as a Mike Huckabee orgy currently taking place in the editorial pages of the New York Times is David Brooks, who calls Huckabee “socially conservative, but not a partisan culture warrior.” In “Blogging Heads: Politics as Unusual” (The Times’ new — and horribly stilted — […]


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On Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama and Frank Rich’s Decision to Sell Us, His Largest and Heretofore Most Devoted Constituency, Down the River

09Dec07

Of all the political columnists at The New York Times, Frank Rich has always seemed the most comfortable — or perhaps we should say the least oblivious — writing about political and social issues from what could be called a gay perspective. After all Rich, who was perhaps the most feared theater critic in the […]


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On Herbert Muschamp and Cathy Horyn (Fashion Is a Canon in this Dialectic Also)

12Oct07

Of all the critics and columnists in recent history at The Times, Herbert Muschamp and Cathy Horyn are the only ones who have succeeded in gripping us with every sentence that ever appeared under their respective names. Now, of course, Muschamp is dead, returned to the same infinite folds as an entire generation of gay […]


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