The Passion of the Joel
I’m not ashamed to admit I that I like Joel Connelly. Sure, he’s a curmudgeonly old curmudgeon with a penchant for repeating the same old jokes and stories again and again (and again), and yeah, as a writer, he’s one of those persnickety old-timers who apparently believes that Strunk & White was carved in stone by the almighty hand of, well, Strunk & White . And then there’s his wistful nostalgia for the mythical days of statesmanlike bipartisanship. Oy. But Joel’s also a walking en