A Word from Jonathan ...
Like you, I'm a David Horsey fan -- best political cartoonist in the country, and maybe the world. I don't quite consider him loony-left, but the man not only draws like nobody else -- he uses words as part of it like nobody else. I call him "a columnist who draws", and even have a book of his work that somehow surfaced up here. Hey, I'd rather have Horsey for oppo-work than some of the guys who write. Wouldn't you? David Horsey. The man they should retire the cartoonists' Pulitzer for.
* Can't thank you enough for the David Brooks blog. More than any pundit I've ever read, David Brooks makes me darned proud to be an American. Last summer, after an unfortunate mishap by Your Humble Writer finally settled down, I just happened to see the NYT and a tiny squib: "David Brooks will join The Times' Op-Ed..." Only time I ever stood up and cheered over a hire. The man's brilliant. Even my mom, who doesn't read the Times, heard this remark on the Imus show: "That David Brooks is the smartest guy in Washington." Now, that's the kind of radio talk I like (not Imus, I mean). What I wouldn't give to share a meal with the man! Keep him on your list, Dave-O. You won't be disappointed.
* Believe it or not, My Lovely Rabbi (who has five kids) has a tiny connection to Idaho. Seems her youngest son, now a reporter/anchor for the local CBS affiliate, got his very first TV job about a decade ago- at the CBS affiliate in Idaho Falls. Now, I've never been anywhere near Idaho Falls, but My Lovely Rabbi and her (now-deceased) husband flew out to Salt Lake and drove up to see him. Since the boy was, arguably, the only one of My Tribe in town, she was a little worried, but reported that the locals- mostly Mormon over there, I believe- treated him with respect and even steered him to the only rabbi in the state- in Boise- when the major holidays came along. Their neighboring state of Utah sent us our current Gov., Mitt Romney, a/k/a The Mormonator. I must admit he's probably too much of a wing-nut for this state, and nobody I know l! ikes him. We like Bill Weld-style, progressive-patrician Reps, though.
*That's it from this Corner. Loved your description of Cd'A as "Hagadonia". I must rent "Duck Soup" to go with those other Marx-ist flicks I saw recently. By the way, the real Fredonia is a town in Western New York, and when the original picture came out, Groucho said to its mayor: "Don't change the name of your town! It will help our picture!" Guess he knew early that any publicity is good publicity, right?
Jonathan Cohen
Brookline, MA
DFO: Another entertaining entry from my Massachusetts correspondent.
