Quick stuff: Carville/Matalin, Reagan’s musings, and more on the women’s prison (+ open thread)

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Things n stuff:

  • Hide the children… Political junkies rejoice, the most famous political-consulting power couple of all (as opposed to…?) is coming to town. Norwich University is hosting a talk from James Carville and Mary Matalin, Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. in Plumley Armory at Norwich in Northfield. The event is free and open to all, but tickets are required. Reserve them by calling 802-485-2633 or email to toddlectureseries@norwich.edu. Click here for more info.

    Depending on who you are, you might view either one of the two as a political hero, you might see them collectively as the love-conquers-all poster couple for how two people of radically different politics can find each other, or you might see them as the very embodiment of an entrenched Washington elite that picks sides of the great ideological debates facing our country the way most people pick whether to be red or black in a game of checkers. Call them Rorschach celebrities (yeah, I made that up just now – if you use it, you’ll owe me a nickel each time).

  • From the NSS department (no shit, Sherlock): By way of TPM, even Michael Reagan wouldn’t bet on Papa Gipper rising through the ranks of today’s tea-party dominated GOP: “If you evaluate him as a governor today, “the argument him would come from the right, not from the left …He would have trouble getting his own nomination [today], but yet he ended up being the greatest president in our lifetimes.”

    Well, he ended up president, at any rate.

  • More to come… I got a truckload of feedback over my diary on the conditions faced by women prisoners at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility following their ill-advised move from the Northwest facility in St. Albans. Almost all of it overwhelmingly positive (well, except for the comment from this guy, who didn’t even pretend to cover his internet tracks, and turns out to be an employee at the Chittenden facility. Oops). As a result, there is much more coming. Look for my interview with an anonymous whistleblower tomorrow who has worked with women inmates at both facilities. It all gets worse.

3 thoughts on “Quick stuff: Carville/Matalin, Reagan’s musings, and more on the women’s prison (+ open thread)”

  1. Look for my interview with an anonymous whistleblower tomorrow who has worked with women inmates at both facilities

    My take on Matalin and Carville is that they deserve each other.  It’s like they’re trapped in a scene from “No Exit.”  Hell on the Beltway.

  3. early in the morning at National Airport, before RR had to have his name on one of everything……

    anyway…   she was fairly nice to someone who just came up to them at 6am when no one had had coffee yet….   he was pretty much the jerk he would be expected to be….  and I dont fall on the R side of things, so……

    I sorta agree that they have found a niche to exploit and are milking that cow for all it is worth.  

    ozzie and harriet with an edge for the cameras….   more power to them…

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