Christine O’Donnell charmed Delaware Republicans, winning the state’s GOP senate primary and making headlines. The Tea Party sweetheart made headlines today by cancelling appearances on two Sunday news interview shows. The Christian conservative claims she forgot about a previously scheduled church picnic, but the recent discovery of a previously aired television performance might have something to do with it:
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
Better go back and find out.
– Frank Vincent Zappa, “What’s New in Baltimore?”
Musician and composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was born in Baltimore, spending boyhood years in a Park Heights Avenue row house and at nearby Edgewood Arsenal. His family moved to California in 1952, but Charm City is honoring its native son with a statute from Lithuania. There will also be free performances and a symposium at this weekend’s sculpture dedication.
Peter J. Boyer has an excellent piece in The New Yorker about DC’s notorious den of sex scandals and conservative politics, 133 C Street SE. Locals will be interested in how the place came to be the “Frat House for Jesus” for conservative congressmen.
After fundamentalist leader Douglas Coe helped wealthy Michael Timmis and his son reconcile, writes Boyer, the grateful Timmis bought the C Street townhouse for “Coe’s sons, David and Tim, and their friend Marty Sherman.”
“The Coe brothers and Sherman had been schoolmates at James Madison University, where they were part of a fraternity for believers, and tried to model themselves after the early Christians described in the Book of Acts. After graduating, they apprenticed with the Fellowship, and saw a chance to branch out when the house on C Street became available.
The Fall concert series at Capitol Hill’s Eastern Market neighborhood has a fine double bill this Sunday: Karen Collins & the Backroads Band (10:30 AM) and Janine Wilson & Max Evans (1:00 PM). The concert site is at the corner of 7th Street and North Carolina Avenue SE, in front of Port City Java, across from the historic market building.
The Sunday series, funded in part by the Capitol Hill Community Foundation, runs another three weeks. The schedule is here.
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The assault is on. Raiders from the extremist Sciurus carolinensis group are attacking the vulnerable U.S. electric power infrastructure, paralyzing the nation and plunging Americans into darkness. In Virginia. In New Jersey. In Nebraska and Washington State.
Mass evacuation in Trenton. Terror in Tennessee. Services severed in North Carolina. Arson in Idaho.
Can nothing be done? Is no one safe? When will it end?
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It’s the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain. Can’t get away to celebrate the bicentenary? You can still experience the sounds of Mexico via the Fonoteca Nacional, the National Audio Archive.
More:
“Mexico celebrates its unique street sounds this week,” Chris Hawley, USA Today.
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White House Soup of the Day for September 15, 2010, as reported by MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
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The documentary about Eliot Spitzer was the hot ticket at Tribeca and the Toronto Film Festival. What does a disgraced moral crusader do after his ethics and sex life become the stuff of jokes, tabloids, books, and movies?
He goes Hollywood. Mr. Spitzer will co-host a show on CNN this fall.
Two out of three American voters don’t like the Democrats. Three out of four don’t like the Republicans. But get this: registered voters told Gallup they’re going to vote for Republicans over Democrats by a 10-point margin.
Eugene Robinson explains:
“According to polls, Americans are in a mood to hold their breath until they turn blue. Voters appear to be so fed up with the Democrats that they’re ready to toss them out in favor of the Republicans — for whom, according to those same polls, the nation has even greater contempt. This isn’t an ‘electoral wave,’ it’s a temper tantrum.”
“The spoiled-brat American electorate,” Eugene Robinson, Washington Post.
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Arizona Governor Janice Kay Brewer, one of the keenest minds ever to come out of Glendale Community College, seemed oddly confused and distracted during a recent televised debate:
“Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stopped speaking during an interview and stared blankly at the camera for 30 seconds. The good news is, she’s now eligible to be governor of Alaska.” —Jay Leno
When she did speak, Governor Brewer rambled on about a scenic Arizona landscape littered with heads from decapitated bodies. The widely publicized claim, without any factual merit, is of understandable concern to Arizona’s large tourism industry.
There have also been questions about the mental health of the Arizona chief executive, especially given her family history. When a 66-year-old begins to spin wild tales and have memory and attention lapses, voters may have doubts. On the other hand, Governor Brewer may be making a sophisticated play for the Sun City sympathy vote.
