Commentary Series

Maleski for Prez

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Both the Republican and Democratic fields have unannounced candidates lurking in the wings: Al Gore shadowing Democrats, and Fred Thompson pacing the Republicans. But there’s one stealth candidate out there who’s stealthier than the rest.
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Mother’s love

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With Mother’s Day coming up, commentator Philip Baruth can’t help but remember a day in 1974, when reports of Philip’s own death were greatly exaggerated.
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Existentialist

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Commentator Philip Baruth has loved the Google search engine ever since he began using it, but there’s always been something that troubled him about it. Now, thanks to good old American ingenuity, that tiny glitch has been fixed.
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McCain’s Sandwich

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Every once in a while commentator Philip Baruth loses himself in a fictional character, when his everyday self proves too limiting. Today he tells the story of John McCain’s 2008 Presidential bid from just such a character’s point of view: Philly, a deli owner in Winooski.
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Basketball Inventor

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Commentator Philip Baruth delivers a stunning bit of basketball history today: his great-grandfather invented the game. And this time apparently – he’s not kidding. Here’s Philip.
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Bless these hounds

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oday is Boxing Day – an English tradition having to do with charitable giving, thanking tradespeople and sporting events like fox hunting. Which brings us to commentator Philip Baruth. Recently, Philip was asked to bless a pack of fox hounds in Charlotte. And he did it at least, he thinks he did.
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ABBA Museum

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Stockholm is slated to open an ABBA-themed museum in 2008. But Commentator Philip Baruth is making a desperate, last-ditch effort to get the city to scrap the project.
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The morning after

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Commentator Philip Baruth attended the Democratic Election Night Victory Party at the Wyndham Hotel, and it reminded him of nothing so much as the climax of Irwin Allen’s 1972 blockbuster disaster film The Poseiden Adventure.