His latest column.

All these years later, I didn’t realize there was an election this week until the Sunday before. On election day, I was in neighborhoods where they should have been calling out Carl McCall’s name. There was no sound. Then I realized that this silence was right, that there was no election. McCall was the candidate, but he did not ruin the politics here. It was shameless Bill Clinton who used the Democratic Party and left it with a hyphen. Not because of his trailer camp sex, nor his lying under oath to a grand jury. Rather, he merged the Democratic Party with the Republican Party. The Democratic-Republican Party. He left the Democrats with no issues, no purpose, no aim, no desire for anything except keeping the job. Do whatever the Republicans do. They want a tax cut that can break us? Good. Vote for it. They want a war? Of course. Let’s kill.

What a good idea!

If you find yourself in Times Square between now, and January 22, 2003, look up at the big TV screen to see videos by William Wegman, courtesy of Creative Time.

I thought Dan and others would appreciate this quote from the obituary of Brian Behan in today’s NY Times:

His first play, “Boots for the Footless,” which played at a London theater, was picketed by Irish groups objecting to what they considered its stereotypical portrayals of Irishmen as drunk and violent and Irish women as contradictory and conniving.

He was unrepentant. “I regard being stage-Irish as something of a trade like any other,” he said. “It’s something we Irish are particularly good at. After all, we have no other natural resource that I know of.”

Me bomb you long time!

The latest from Mark Morford:

Let’s go to Wal-Mart
Need cheese puffs and wine coolers
Damn, the house won’t start

The BBC has a good summary of the timetable for the next steps, now that the Iraq resolution has passed.

Aaarrrgh. I can’t help myself. I said I was going to try to concentrate on politics a bit less after the election, but I’m not succeeding.

OK. Here’s a non-politics post, except for the fact that White Box is one of the few non-profit art spaces that still has the nerve to do political shows.

We attended the benefit last night, and picked up some works by:

Carlos de Villasante

Rey Akdogan

Alejandro Diaz

Michael Meads — We already had 3 photos by him. There’s an opening tonight for his new show at Nikolai Fine Art on West 22nd Street.

This is an interesting page from the Media Reform Information Center.

Number of corporations controlling the vast majority of all news media:

I guess the Republicans are waiting until the number is one — and it’s Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News — to stop whining about the “liberal media”.