Tag Archives: Mike Gerson

Words With Which to Woo

It’s Friday. Perhaps you don’t have any social plans this weekend. Perhaps you’d like to find someone special to spend your weekends with. Perhaps Mike Gerson’s been freaking you out. Podium Pundits is here to help. Online hooker-upper OkCupid presents a helpful analysis of which words win hearts and which words turn potential lovers cold. […]

Fighting Terror with Humor

More on White House speechwriting in September 2001. Though the period was obviously full of tension and concern, there were several lighthearted moments, too. For instance, at one meeting – it might have been on September 12th – when the speech staff was spit-balling ideas for the president’s sure-to-come address to the nation, one of […]