The New Republic’s Marty Peretz has joined the chorus of people who value religious freedom . . . selectively. Today Nick Kristof brought Peretz’ inane editorial to the world’s notice. And here’s James Fallows’ take. It’s not as important that Peretz has gone off the deep end, skinny-dipping with the same kind of bigots who, … Read more
Pastor Terry Jones of Florida will burn Korans on Saturday, 9/11. He just hates that much. This pathetic loser doesn’t care how many troops this hurts overseas, as Gen. Petraeus predicts . . . so long as he gets on TV. Clearly the nuts are loose and they are coming to fix Washington. Hold on … Read more
Paul Conrad, who we lost this weekend, was an idol to me and all caricaturists and cartoonists who wondered at the power of ink on paper as a force in the world. I slotted in here his Nixon as Richard III, a favorite of mine. His lines were simple but contained great energy and unraveled … Read more
Former Sen. Alan Simpson has always been a loose cannon with a kind of folksy arrogance, which I always liked. His latest cracks about Social Security, though, don’t crack me up. And that’s because he is on a panel appointed by Pres. Obama to come up with solutions to the long-term funding problem and all … Read more
For some reason starting thinking today about Abel Meeropol. He was a high school teacher at DeWitt Clinton here in NY. I don’t know much about him except three things. He wrote Strange Fruit after seeing a photo of a lynching. He and his wife adopted the Rosenberg children after they were orphaned by American … Read more
