Sarah I love you so much. This weekend at some Ronald Reagan Dinner in Iowa (they just can’t get over him), my heart-throb Sarah let it be known in no uncertain terms that she values the freedom of the press. In her talk she defended it as a sacred right and then condemned professional journalists, … Read more
In our time and place the humility of atonement and the calling to account has a deep imperative. Just open a newspaper or any news website. How fine a mass atonement and a dawning self-awareness would be. This all brings to mind Cantor Yosele Rosenblatt. A recent Times piece about an intrepid audio amateur in … Read more
In the sequel to to Dinner With Schmucks, the mouse-collecting schmuck is played by Republican Intellectual Expert on Persons of Color Dinesh d’Souza. His job for the GOP is to peddle racism for use by others, hoping he gets a pass. Here, in a book and article. he claims that Obama is a tool of … Read more
The corrupt ambitions of Hamid Karzai grow by leaps and bounds. Today’s Times reported his specific intervention in releasing a suspect in custody. Tensions between Mr. Karzai and the Obama administration boiled over this summer after two anti-corruption task forces wiretapped conversations of a Karzai aide soliciting a bribe and threw him in jail. Mr. … Read more
My conversion to the Tea Party is now complete with the primary win tonight of Tea Hearth-Throb Christine O’Donnell. The biggest news about her and her pals is that while Hard Righties like her used to hide behind posturing euphemisms of various kinds, now the vogue is to let everything hang out. Not only are … Read more
