by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
I. A hypocrite comes clean, sort of. Frank Rich, in his recent column “Everybody Hates Don Imus,” performs the useful and unusual public service of unmasking himself as a hypocrite. As a repeat guest and longtime listener of the shockingly hateful...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
We need leadership, not ‘likemanship.’ GIG HARBOR, WASH.— With Election Day 2008 more than a year-and-a-half off, already the presidential campaign is—sigh—energetically under way. And already—groan—we hear the media discuss it as a popularity contest. As...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world, she walks into his—again—this time alone. Why? We are in Rick’s Café Americain, in Casablanca. It’s after hours. Rick sits at a table, totaling receipts. Ilsa enters, wearing white. Sam, polishing the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
For some time now, the commentariat—columnists, critics, bloggers—has bashed the American public as “celebrity-starved,” gobbling every sighting and, better yet, smashup of a person “famous for being famous.” And, with the smashups...
