and the continuing mental deterioration of Peretz continues apace. I wonder if he mailed this in written in his own shit?

I kinda like Senator Scott Brown, the Republican junior senator from my home state of Massachusetts. No, I did not vote for him. But I certainly did not vote for Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate anointed by the party hacks to the seat everyone called “Kennedy’s seat.” Ted Kennedy held that seat for almost half a century, and he filled it with distinction off which some members of his family poached. He actually turned himself into a brainy man, not quite an intellectual but smart about the world in which we live and keen about the culture which surrounded him. Coakley is a nothing, and she would have been less than a nothing in the Senate. Brown rose through the school of hard knocks with a certain aplomb, and partially paid for his education by posing in the nude for Cosmo. He handled that fact during the campaign with a pizzazz [*] that brought him laughs and should have led Bay Staters to the conclusion that nudity was no sin. It was a non-issue a day after it was raised. By the time the voters went to the polls it was one of his assets. Alas, Warren is not a fast learner, and she tried to make a huffy issue of “Brown in the buff” already when the election was still about a year off. Like now. She has a tn ear.

&c. &c. There is a good deal more where that was swiped from, and

[*] yes, VA, some of it does indeed concern a certain former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City.

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