AFTER-WORD – Monday, January 31, 2005
It’s a puzzling charge, anyway.
Professor Bainbridge responds. And, of course, as one of my favorite conservative bloggers, he’s on the A-1 Blogroll at right.
Here’s one: Dick Codey, Jim McGreevey’s Jersey replacement, has decided
that he will not seek to a full term.
[H]e said he did not want to neglect his family responsibilities by adding the roles of candidate and fund-raiser to a list of titles that includes acting governor, State Senate president, father, husband and coach to a youth basketball team in Newark.
“It is way too much for any one person,” he said today, as a roomful of staff members and supporters looked on, some with tears in their eyes.
He was governor for ten weeks, and his problem is that his political ambitions hit a brick wall named billionaire Senator Jon Corzine. In New Jersey, I’ve hard it said, Corzine could have defeated McGreevey when he was straight.
The NJ GOP will need a popular President Bush to help out with this one, and they just might get it. The way the Democrats have set things up, their popularity falls as the President’s rises. It’s a zero sum game right now, for the most part, and it looks promising for the President.
According to a piece in The Weekly World News:
In an announcement which is stunning the world, France has decided to change its name permanently to Stinkland.
I don’t know how this played at Davos, but it seems the best choice given the other possibilities listed by the tabloid: “Jerry Lewis Land, Hate Americans Land, Coward Land, and Overpriced Small Portion Food Land.”
I was watching a few in my new Stan Brakhage anthology. I probably should have waited ’til the weekend for that, but… MPFC will set things right, if such a term be applicable, tonight.
