If “Tiresome and Ponderous Journalistic Meandering” was an Olympic sport, Cohen would be the Bruce Jenner of it. That’s a compliment. I didn’t say that she’d be the John du Pont of it, did I?
Anyhoo.. For all the tiresome ponderousness, she gets to talk to people who will not talk to me and sometimes reports something worthwhile. Here, in the closing sentences of her most recent blog post, is her latest gem:
Markell’s chances? As Bob Gilligan, the House speaker who is also the Democratic national committeeman, wittily put it, “Nobody loses when they run unopposed.”