There’s a great piece buried in the Times today, about a Manhattan art dealer who owned a portrait for ten years, selling it last year for what she had paid, nearly $22,000, and now European experts using high-tech imagery are…
The commenters are right and I’m wrong, largely, about Sarah Palin. She’s not fit to lead the country. You’re right, all of you. That said, I still find her appealing as a person. I’d like her on my town board….
I changed parties after Clinton to vote for John McCain in spring ’00, then he disappointed me and became a warmongering Bush clone, and today I’m reminded of why I loved the guy. He was daring, had a great sense…
McCain has made a genius choice. This woman is impressive, she’s ordinary in a way that Joe Biden isn’t, she puts Pennsylvania in play. She is in touch with ordinary Americans, with the people I spoke of last night who…
I love The National, the new Abu Dhabi paper. It’s so sophisticated. Maybe the Arab world is full of dictatorships, and women have no freedom, but the National is breaking paradigms. Today they have a memoir of Mahmoud Darwish by…
The AP says that Iraq and China have inked a $3 billion oil deal that had been negotiated five years ago then set aside right after the American invasion. If my wife is right, and this is all Cheney cares…
What a surprise. On that score alone hat’s off to McCain for his stunning (and desperate) choice. Change is truly afoot. And as I and so many others have said before, we’ve never lived through such an exciting political year….
Wikipedia says that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is married to a native Yup’ik Eskimo, Todd Palin. And her son is being deployed to Iraq. If the report on CNN that Palin is McCain’s choice is true, it shows that the…
Jerusalem Post has a piece on Israel’s coming demographic crisis: not enough Jews want to move to Israel. The Knesset has a committee on aliyah, or Jewish immigration, and one of the members seeks a “mental revolution” in aliyah. [S]ignificantly…