Media watch

This is just one woman's opinion, but might the New York Times consider keeping Sarah Vowell on in some capacity after Maureen Dowd finishes writing her book? I like her voice.

I would rather not spend the next Election Day the way I spent the last one: wondering just how much to hate Ohio. My vote was written off because I live in the perpetually sewn-up state of New York. But because the citizens of that battleground state could not make up their gosh darn minds, their votes actually counted. They chose the current president of the United States.

Or rather, to be accurate, last Nov. 2 they chose the rich guys and party hangers-on known as the electors of the Electoral College, and on Dec. 13, those folks elected the president.