The Commentariat -- August 28, etc.
I've posted an Open Thread on Off Times Square. Commenters can just keep it going into the next day(s) if I lose power.
Not sure if I'll be able to do a real Commentariat page today, as the outer bands of the hurricane have already hit, and I'm likely to lose power. I don't think I'm in any danger unless Irene takes a sudden sharp left. How I wish the voters would take a sudden sharp left. Hope springs eternal, etc.
Here's one for Irene. You gotta love the YouTubes. Lead Belly, who knows when? The woman in the video is Martha Promise, Ledbetter's wife:
... Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast has more hurricane classics here.
CW: In one of my more unpopular New York Times comments I defended Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr. for his handling of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. (Whoever the columnist was whacked Vance.) So I'm quite pleased that the fine popular novelist & defense attorney Scott Turow writes a Times op-ed piece which nearly perfectly reiterates with what I said way back when: "... Beyond a mistake due in part to being cornered by the law, I think Mr. Vance performed well. The collateral damage to the career of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who resigned in disgrace from the I.M.F., was clearly unfair, but that was caused largely by his sensational arrest, which Mr. Vance had no choice about effecting.... Any responsible law enforcement professional would have detained Mr. Strauss-Kahn and sought to question him and gather evidence, including DNA."
Right Wing World
Scott Keyes of Think Progress: "During a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa [Saturday], Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) reaffirmed all the views expressed in his book Fed Up!, including that Social Security is unconstitutional, despite previous attempts by his campaign staff to walk back the candidate’s words." With video.