Joan Didion is sick and tired of Barack Obama and John McCain, but will still have her media heroes after the election is over: "The increasing destabilization of the economy was already clear—an average of 81,000 jobs a month were lost all through the summer—but discussion of how to resolve the bleeding still centered on such familiar favorites as tort reform. This word 'reform' kept resurfacing, but the question of who exactly was to be reformed was left to be explored mainly on The View, by Barbara Walters." [NYRB via Maza's Bazaar]
