January 26, 2008

This morning's New York Times has another in a series of anti-Giuliani pieces, a beaut by Gail Collins. Filing from Fort Lauderdale, she monitor's the ex-mayor's last-gasp swing through Florida on the eve of the Republican presidential primary and observes:

"Giuliani has turned hurricanes into nature's way of saying Al Qaeda. ('All of us are subject to the impact of natural disasters . . . and of course acts of terrorism, which I remember living through.')"

Talk about running on the fumes of 9/11.

For more on Giuliani, check out yesterday's post on VanityFair.com, by yours truly.

...And while you're at it, sample my post about New York Times obituaries.

MEANWHILE, ACROSS THE POND...There's a large take-out in Saturday's Times of London on the upcoming exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, Vanity Fair Portraits, 1913-2008. Worth a gander.