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Ends, with Odds Included
Jan. 22nd, 2004 01:56 pm1. This is what's been keeping me busy at the office:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/01/21/jewish.museum.ap/index.html
Yup, the Museum is 100. Honestly, I have concluded that celebrating milestones is far less interesting than promoting exhibitions.
We're wrapping up weeks of prep that led to a lot of meaningless parties, a ceremony where the mayor cancelled 10 minutes beforehand, and a lot of aggravation. But we've gotten some great press, including a big piece in the Times, and the free admission yesterday and today to mark the birthday is drawing big crowds.
If you have nothing better to do Sunday in NYC, with no football and your wife/girlfriend at a wedding shower, you might want to swing by the Museum as Sunday is a free day, too. Might be crowded, though.
2. Starting to focus a little bit more on the Democratic candidates, now that it's truly primary season. As of now, none of them impressed me much. The ones who supported the Iraq War - Kerry, Lieberman, Edwards - I hesitate to support for that reason alone (though at least Kerry seems to have admitted he was bamboozled by Dubya on the WMD issue). Kucinich is a bit of nut, with some ideas that even I find too far to the left. Sharpton is a rabble-rouser and not a politician. Clark has shown little skill as a campaigner and apparently hired a smear artist to attack his opponents.
And Dean? I want to like him. He's against the war, and has said repeatedly what I want to hear, that fighting Iraq has misdirected resources from fighting terrorism head-on. He's feisty enough to not take any crap from Dubya. He's clearly intelligent. But something about him just doesn't impress me. Maybe it was his attempt to paint himself early on as being a true liberal when he's not. Maybe it's his lax attitude on gun control. Maybe it's his lack of experience in foreign policy, or his failure to come up with a better plan for rebuilding Iraq than "Dubya has failed." So I just can't support him.
But at this point, he looks a bit better than most of the pack. Kerry, assuming his status as the flavor of the week is real, is probably the only other candidate I would support, given that he seems intelligent, that has a good deal of experience, and that he has a large personal fortune he shares with his wife and that he could possibly use to compete with Dubya's $100 million (and growing) war chest.
One thing for sure: Almost all the Democrats running - excpeting just Kucinich and Sharpton - would be better than Dubya. Even Lieberman, whose hawkish attitudes and moralistic streak as nearly as bad as Dubya's. At least Lieberman is pro-labor and pro-environment.
3. Speaking of Dean, I feel so sorry for him this week. He loses one race, and suddenly his campaign is over! The media is doing what it does best: creating the next Big Thing and then tearing it down. I just have never seen it happen so fast. And yet, Dubya gets off scot-free form this process. So far.
Wonder how long Kerry will be on top. He's going to get the same treatment, mark my word.
That's it for now.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/01/21/jewish.museum.ap/index.html
Yup, the Museum is 100. Honestly, I have concluded that celebrating milestones is far less interesting than promoting exhibitions.
We're wrapping up weeks of prep that led to a lot of meaningless parties, a ceremony where the mayor cancelled 10 minutes beforehand, and a lot of aggravation. But we've gotten some great press, including a big piece in the Times, and the free admission yesterday and today to mark the birthday is drawing big crowds.
If you have nothing better to do Sunday in NYC, with no football and your wife/girlfriend at a wedding shower, you might want to swing by the Museum as Sunday is a free day, too. Might be crowded, though.
2. Starting to focus a little bit more on the Democratic candidates, now that it's truly primary season. As of now, none of them impressed me much. The ones who supported the Iraq War - Kerry, Lieberman, Edwards - I hesitate to support for that reason alone (though at least Kerry seems to have admitted he was bamboozled by Dubya on the WMD issue). Kucinich is a bit of nut, with some ideas that even I find too far to the left. Sharpton is a rabble-rouser and not a politician. Clark has shown little skill as a campaigner and apparently hired a smear artist to attack his opponents.
And Dean? I want to like him. He's against the war, and has said repeatedly what I want to hear, that fighting Iraq has misdirected resources from fighting terrorism head-on. He's feisty enough to not take any crap from Dubya. He's clearly intelligent. But something about him just doesn't impress me. Maybe it was his attempt to paint himself early on as being a true liberal when he's not. Maybe it's his lax attitude on gun control. Maybe it's his lack of experience in foreign policy, or his failure to come up with a better plan for rebuilding Iraq than "Dubya has failed." So I just can't support him.
But at this point, he looks a bit better than most of the pack. Kerry, assuming his status as the flavor of the week is real, is probably the only other candidate I would support, given that he seems intelligent, that has a good deal of experience, and that he has a large personal fortune he shares with his wife and that he could possibly use to compete with Dubya's $100 million (and growing) war chest.
One thing for sure: Almost all the Democrats running - excpeting just Kucinich and Sharpton - would be better than Dubya. Even Lieberman, whose hawkish attitudes and moralistic streak as nearly as bad as Dubya's. At least Lieberman is pro-labor and pro-environment.
3. Speaking of Dean, I feel so sorry for him this week. He loses one race, and suddenly his campaign is over! The media is doing what it does best: creating the next Big Thing and then tearing it down. I just have never seen it happen so fast. And yet, Dubya gets off scot-free form this process. So far.
Wonder how long Kerry will be on top. He's going to get the same treatment, mark my word.
That's it for now.
