The Long Hot Winter
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
Now is the winter of our discontent. And, officially, it’s still fall.
I have developed a whole new appreciation for the hysteria over Tiger Woods. Many critics of the news media believe we are spending way too much time worrying about why a golfer had a car accident at the end of his driveway. But given the incredibly depressing nature of all the big news stories of the week, if you want to focus on Tiger’s marital problems, I am in total sympathy.
The president ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. The New York State Senate defeated a same-sex marriage bill. Even the murder and racketeering trial of John Gotti Jr. ended badly.
I have been a fan of this particular judicial proceeding ever since the day that Gotti got into a courtroom brawl with a prosecution witness that ended with Junior shouting: “You’re a punk! You’re a dog! You’re a dog! You always were a dog your whole life, you punk dog.”
(More here.)
NYT
Now is the winter of our discontent. And, officially, it’s still fall.
I have developed a whole new appreciation for the hysteria over Tiger Woods. Many critics of the news media believe we are spending way too much time worrying about why a golfer had a car accident at the end of his driveway. But given the incredibly depressing nature of all the big news stories of the week, if you want to focus on Tiger’s marital problems, I am in total sympathy.
The president ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. The New York State Senate defeated a same-sex marriage bill. Even the murder and racketeering trial of John Gotti Jr. ended badly.
I have been a fan of this particular judicial proceeding ever since the day that Gotti got into a courtroom brawl with a prosecution witness that ended with Junior shouting: “You’re a punk! You’re a dog! You’re a dog! You always were a dog your whole life, you punk dog.”
(More here.)
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