There’s something in a hat (besides a raccoon)

by David Benjamin “Wide brimmed and narrow, some tall, some not, some fancy, some colorful, some plaid, some plain. She doted on changing hats at every opportunity. When she met the Prince, she was wearing one hat, when he asked her for a stroll, she excused herself, shortly to return wearing another, equally flattering.”  — William…

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Unstatesmanlike conduct

by David Benjamin ““January 6 happened, and … I will tell you something. If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”  — Marjorie Taylor Greene   MADISON, Wis.— During the same week that Kevin McCarthy sniveled, groveled and weaseled his way into an impotent Speakership…

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A nose for news

by David Benjamin I worked a while in the unlikely capacity of public relations flack for a consultancy in Boston. The saving grace of this assignment was my boss, the estimable Patrick Pollino, a paragon of old-school—ethical—public relations. More important, he was an editor with few peers. One of Patrick’s “products” at Arthur D. Little,……

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Jack Smith throws in the towel

by David Benjamin “I don’t take responsibility at all.” — Trump   WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a shocking Friday the 13th bombshell, Jack Smith, a Justice Department special counsel assigned by Attorney General Merrick Garland to hound Donald Trump to his grave, announced that all investigations of the ex-president have been indefinitely suspended. Smith, who brought to his…

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