22-year-old escort’s lingo “dated“. Way.

Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of Hillary Clinton’s finance committee so that she can “speak for herself,” which suggests she will continue to defend her comment in an interview that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be” the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. I was going to respond to bloggers like Josh Marshall and Kevin Drum, who argue that Ferraro is

Sometimes a spliff is just a spliff. 

“Honey, could you fix me some eggs? Oh, right. Well, next time you come out, then.” *

Before NY Gov-until-Monday Eliot Spitzer slinks off the media’s monitor, I want to note that ABC’s Brian Ross and Anna Schechter not only interviewed a 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl website, but also surfed thousands of online postings from young women of all types and races who offer themselves for “escort” and “tryst” services, most likely in pursuit of Spitzer’s elusive “Kristen.”  A dirty job, but someone had to do it.  We can only

The star writer of stage and screen explains “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’” to the Village Voice.  The Anchoress now dubs Mamet a “classical liberal.” That term is likely to explode the head of former Village Voice campaign correspondent Rick Perlstein.  Then again, Perlstein once called Andrew Sullivan “gauzy,” so perhaps he should lay off labeling others himself.  Perlstein will not take that advice, of course.  David Mamet

What links disgraced NY Gov-until-Monday Eliot Spitzer and Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama?  Something more than party, but something less than a prostitution ring (though if Steve Kroft asked me about it enough times, I too might add the “afaik” qualifier). At the Wall Street Journal, Kimberley A. Strassel surveys the media coverage Spitzer once got: Time magazine bestowed upon Mr. Spitzer the title “Crusader of the Year,” and likened

At RCP, Thomas Edsall surveys a range of experts (though mostly left of center) as to whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is more electable (along with related questions).  Most offer variations on some of the themes I have blogged here the past few weeks, e.g., which demographics might switch to John McCain, Obama’s strength in Mountain and Western states, Obama as a higher-risk, higher-reward candidate, etc.  It is nevertheless

One cannot accuse her, at least, of inconsistency:  I’m still reading lots of shocked expressions that Spitzer was a patron of the sex industry, even as reports emerge that he’s been doing this for a decade or more and dropped nearly a hundred thousand dollars on the habit. CNN’s senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, who attended law school with Spitzer, said, “To say this is a shock is an understatement”

Spitz swallows the inevitable. UPDATE: Celebrate Spitzmas with Whine Spitzers UPDATEx2: Transporting mynahs over sedate lions for immortal porpoises, or . . . you da man act UPDATEx3: Tragic fall of a scumbag (Willy Lomax’s evil twin with a trust fund)