Recreational Poli Sci
hedge industries from yesteryear, combined with politics and politicology from deepest suburbia
I got a copy of Woodward’s newest “More political elites open up to me than anyone” title. Before cracking the spine, though, the cover gave me pause. Is it just me, or does that weird, ham-handed photoshopping of a bunch of disparate faces together look like it was done last second? For a book that is going to sell a bunch of copies, I think S&S should have spent a bit more. You know, looking back, a lot of Woodward books have lousy dust jacket art.
I forgot that I set up a Google Alert to tell me if someone posts “Coriolanus” and “NJ” in the same space. I was reminded when Daniel Hannan, whomever he is, made some Shakespearean hay out of Chris Christie. For your enjoyment.
For your Putin chortle of the day, from NYT. If Obama followed this playbook, he’d have put on a scuba suit and capped that damn well himself. You know Putin would have.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin underscored that point by taking to the skies to serve as co-pilot of an amphibious firefighting jet, the Be-200, on a dive-bombing run over a burning forest in central Russia, though he has no known pilot training.
The prime minister was shown on state television pressing a button to release tons of water, and asking, “Was that O.K.?”
“A direct hit!” the pilot replied.
WaPo cracks Mr. Alvin Greene’s USAF records wide open today. I’ve written here about how military service interacts with electoral efforts, and, well, not sure this is going help Mr. Greene at all.
Migration to Austin
I think it is funny that there are two notables from Wisco. It seems like I met tons of people from Dane co. in Travis co., and now there is a map, so it must be true.
