Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’

In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/How McCain Lost in Pennsylvania The Short Version: We’ll see who’s laughing in November! In his words: “On the way to the finish line, the prolonged primary race, far from destroying the Democratic candidates, may do more insidious damage to the Republican […]


In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck! The Short Version: That debate was la-la-la-lame! In his words: “I can’t remember a debate in which the only memorable moment was the audience’s heckling of a moderator.” Score: D+ (Dated) The debate already feels like […]


In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/Road Map To Defeat The Short Version: I’m sad! In his words: “Instead of capitalizing on the political advantages presented by these issues, the Democrats, with their increasingly small-minded approach to this election, are squandering them.” Score: D (Dull) Herbert would be […]


In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Date of photographs: April 18, 2008, 8:00pm-ish I, too, have an obsession with the George Washington Bridge. However, mine involves a nagging compulsion to complete a football pass from the deck of the bridge to a buddy on the ground below. —Ryan […]


In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/The Petraeus-Crocker Show Gets the Hook The Short Version: Even I can’t get outraged over the Iraq war anymore. In his words: “Yet I must confess that, sitting in MoMA, I kept looking beyond the frame of Mr. Morris’s movie as well.” […]


Of all the groundcovers we have introduced into the garden this year, Corsican mint (Mentha requienii) has attained a particular affection for us as we consider it now, with the growing season on the wane. Although it has thrived in several places in the garden, it is most spectacular in the crevices of our stone […]