The Human Stain
(a bit of the text somehow went missing when I posted this before. apologies for the incoherence)
You can't tell very well from looking at the smallish version on their homepage, but the current Village Voice uses as its Valentine-themed visual a disheveled bed...with a really appealing, um, discoloration in the middle. There's nothing more romantic than some rumpled linens and the liquid evidence of how they got rumpled.
I'm getting squeamish in my old age, I'm sure of it.
By the way, speaking of the latest Voice, Richard Goldstein manages to lob a grenade at Nader at the end of a piece castigating the Democrats for folding on the Ashcroft nomination. Now, I've recently been forced to admit that those who see Nader as perhaps reckless in his campaign (in the sense that he quite knowingly pursued Gore voters in battleground states and had some reason to suspect that his successes would significantly increase the chance of a Bush victory)have some good arguments on their side.
But to saddle Nader with the Demos folding on the Ashcroft nomination makes no sense -- Nader's whole point is that the Democratic party has for some time now been consistently happy to sell out the Left whenever convenient.
So now the Democrats PROVE HIM RIGHT on this -- and he's to blame? Amazing.
Posted by B T at February 08, 2001 06:07 PM