Comments on: Dopp: Commission’s Report Is Bogus

By: John K

John K — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:55:16 +0000

The Spitzer Legacy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121712303933687605.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:21:59 +0000

Ed:

Just back on the blog after a day of a funeral, lots of driving, and a little league summer game.

When you’re through with your short stories, call me. Maybe something will come of them. I’ve been selling books to publishers for twenty years.

Incidentally: another great Yankee win today. I love humiliating the Red Sox. THEY have become the “evil empire” which Larry Lucchino once described the Yankees as being, five years ago.

tim@haysmedia.net

By: ed1

ed1 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:05:07 +0000

Ah, Mo. The quiet gentleman who has only one pitch, but is generally un-hittable. How does he do it? Joba threw one at Youkilis’ head, with obvious intent. Reminds me of Bob Gibson of the old Cards when he manager told him to intentionally walk the next batter. Gibson replied: “If I’m gonna put him on, let me hit him. This way he’ll remember me later,”

I don’t know why I’m up so late. Might be that gallon of coffee. Working on a short story and when I get stymied, I click on the blog. When I find something here more interesting than the story I’m working on, I delete the story and curse myself.
Late night is peaceful for writing. It’s like walking down 125th and Lenox during a stormy night. All the muggers are afraid of getting wet and the town is yours. – Ed

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:43:06 +0000

ed:

Here we are in insomniac time. I’m tired of even Colorado Billy’s mail-order commercials.

Allow me to compliment you on your imagery, which is superb.

Your allegory, too, is splendid.

One day, you and I will reform New York’s government. That’s the Don Quixote in me.

More likely, especially given that huge property tax bill you were talking about, we’ll end up in some more rational state, such as PA, MO, MT, or VA, or the Tennessee of Merton, where we will nonetheless miss New York.

The bright spot of the last evening: Joba shutting out the vaunted Red Sox, and Beckett the Yankee-killer, and Yankees holding on to the 1-0 win. Thank G-d for Mo.

By: ed1

ed1 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:07:28 +0000

Hi, Tim – Bruno is Francis of Assisi compared to Silver; I’ll certainly agree on that. Cuomo may be finally coming into his own after the divorce and after listening all his young life to his venerable father quoting Teilhard de Chardin over the Rice Crispies. Finally got the garage door painted today. The brush comes alive in my hand. Van Gogh would have had a better life by far had he opened a Cabot paint store instead of wasting his time on all those crows!

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:50:28 +0000

ed:

You have become one of my favorite persons—it was the Thos. Merton comment that got my own Irish liking you.

Hey: Bruno has been no more corrupt than any other New York elected official since, oh, 1968. And he hasn’t broken the law.

Do you like Shelly’s law firm’s tv spots? Why they let this man run government as Assembly Speaker defies logic. The fix has been in for some years, maybe since 1973, when State Law allowed lawyer-politicians to lobby themselves. All legal. That’s why Shelly is gloating in his photo-ops.

New York’s government today makes the Maryland or New Jersey of the 1970s look downright respectable. There are very few uncorrupt elected statewide officials in the Empire State. One guy, however, whom I’m liking, is Atty. Gen. Cuomo—ironic, yes? He’s got enough money, and good bloodlines, that he doesn’t have to steal from us.

Best,

Tim

By: ed1

ed1 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:39:36 +0000

,,,the ceaseless self-aggrandizement. How do you, at 78, get a CEO job at a company…oh well, I’ll stop venting for the day. I suppose all’s fair in love and politics after all is said and done. I know it to be true, but I guess I was meant to be a Thomas Merton and dig beets while composing the odd essay from my cell. These sanctimonious triple and quadruple dippers get my Irish up.

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:45:33 +0000

ed:

Your comment is succinct.

One thing, though, that I must say about Mr. Dopp: he was a loyal good soldier in behalf of his boss. Unfortunately, it was the wrong boss to whom he swore his allegiance.

I love Joe Bruno. We should all look as good at 78. The arms, the full head of hair, the tan, the spirit.

By: ed1

ed1 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:46:58 +0000

The biggest outrage in all of this, far out-shadowing the tailing of Bruno is the shabby, unembarrassed, public-be-damned attitudes of all of them up there in not legislating against all this lobbying self-aggrandizement by the politically connected. And Mr. Dopp, despite his protestations, appears to be right in the middle of it.