Let's Do Lunch

Various Democratic Senators are proposing that the President choose the next Supreme Court Justice from a list that they provide.

There's a great New Yorker cartoon on this subject. The guy on the phone behind his desk says: "Thursday's no good for lunch? How about never? How does never work for you?"

Decline and Fall

CBS was once the greatest name in broadcasting. And its greatest asset was CBS News. No longer. Now it's a media packaging company.

Best Rounds of the Day

If you click here, it takes you to the page called "best rounds of the day" at the US Open Championship. And if you scroll to the bottom of that list, you'll find virtually everyone who was within reach of Jim Furyk when the day began.

Vijay Singh shot a 78. He shot a 63 on Friday. Nick Price never got it going. Justin Leonard never got it going. No one mounted any kind of charge at all.

Kudos to Jim Furyk, who was magnificent all four days.

The Air War in Iraq

The first detailed analysis of the Air War in Iraq has been released by the United States Air Force. It is worth reading in full.

The folks at Global Security have a good summary of the report, if you want the e-z version.

Geezer Alert Ultima

Walter Cronkite retired in 1982, which was 21 years ago. He's now 86 years old. And soon he will be a.......King Features Syndicate columnist. His column even has a name: "And That's The Way I See It."

I think this retires the Geezer Alert prize for unwillingness to leave the stage.

Him or Them

The night before Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd stepped down, I finished a piece for Tech Central Station that said Raines wasn't the real problem, the publisher was the real problem. The piece was posted about an hour before the news broke, but I think it's still worth your time.

Annika!

I hadn't seen Annika Sorenstam's card from Friday, but I found it by clicking here. It's definitely worth a look.

Where Is Tom Wolfe When You Really Need Him?

If you fly "private," as Denise Rich does, it only makes sense that you bring along your personal guru. Some who fly "private" bring along a whole entourage; masseuse, chef, guru, whatever. A fine account of this, ah, micro-trend can be found by clicking here. You really cannot make this stuff up.

Grief's Deceit

I found this on the WSJ's "Best of the Web." It's worth repeating.

"Death was quick, but grief, I find, keeps going on and on and on and it affects me in strange ways.

I feel no denial. No anger. No bargaining. No depression. And this makes me wonder if I'll ever get to peace and acceptance. These five classic stages of grief, cited so authoritatively by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, aren't working for me.

Instead my grief is amorphous, deceitful, unpredictable. Sometimes it hides behind distractions; sometimes it covers my spirits like the pall on Mike's coffin, and sometimes it knocks me flat, particularly when I think of Mike's beloved wife, Max, and their little boys, Tom, 7, and Jack, 3, who must live their lives without him."

-- Marguerite Kelly, writing about the death of her son, Michael.

New York City Blues

The best article about the New York City fiscal crisis can be found by clicking here. The killer fact: Over the course of the last decade, New York City has added not one private sector job and nearly 100,000 public sector jobs. There's a tipping point for most everything and New York City is in danger of tipping over.