Word: catnip
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...home he is catnip for the voracious paparazzi. "They follow me everywhere," he says. "They know my car numbers, so they're there whether I'm at the Mandarin Hotel Coffee Shop or at Propaganda (a hip new club). I don't even put my litter outside the house. People try to find things and sell them...
...home-hacking victims go, I fall in the middle of the spectrum. On one hand, I recently installed a high-speed DSL service. These "always on" connections are catnip to hackers because they are stationary targets, vulnerable to attack 24 hours a day. On the other hand, I have a Mac, and most mischiefmakers prefer Windows...
...there's still that last president keeping Bush's Q-ratings down, and while that's catnip for Bush's personal mojo, this was also the week Bush's agenda could have used a more agnostic spotlight. With ex-White House counsel Beth Nolan's piano-key smile lighting up CNN for days on end, Bush's two-day, five-state sales tour made barely a blip on the cable-news radar, and when the Pardongate hearings took a break, there was Greenspan before the House for two mornings this week. And besides hogging the airwaves, the Fed chairman...
...while inequities like that go against the strictest Republican philosophy, they'll go a long way to blunting Democratic complaints that "working families" aren't getting the help they need. Politically, that makes the philosophical inconsistencies well worthwhile - and it's catnip to social conservatives who feel social engineering is okeydoke as long as it involves encouraging traditional nuclear families...
...cuts, certainly, are no longer the irresistible political catnip they once were - perhaps IRS-bashing, for years the only political stunt more popular than cutting taxes, is due for its own reassignment in the cultural landscape...