Just asking

But I gotta give today's "what the fuck" prize to the T-D's editorial page, the contents of which, the website informs us, "express the views of the Times-Dispatch." Today the editorial page board laments that "The days of Clay, Webster, and Calhoun - La Follette, Taft, and Humphrey - are not, alas, ours" in a boozy reverie about the fact that Paula Zahn and Cherie Blair are holding a public conversation in "DeeCee."

1) The men they mentioned (I have no doubt that there are people on staff at the T-D who've heard all six speak) are dead and can't give speeches.

2) For a newspaper that endorsed the hyperarticulate George W. Bush, this pining for the "buggy and horse" days seems a bit misplaced.