Damn Puritan country- June 26, 2004 Initially, I was elated. Heard the news about Jack Ryan Monday, something about wife abuse surfacing in his divorce papers. Great! The Ds were already poised to take back a precious senate seat from the Rs in Illinois, this would just about clinch it. Didn't have time to read the whole story, didn't know exactly what the charges were. Tuesday night I caught the local news. I was staying in Chicago, so it was the huge lead story. Some asshole newsmodel introduced it by saying that the...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/saturdayNight/2004/06/26.html#a1203 |