Today CBS News reports that Kimberly Dozier is headed home, talking “animatedly.” CBS has regularly covered the correspondent’s injury in Iraq, and the death of her two crew-members. I’m a little surprised by the silence surrounding anchor Bob Woodruff’s injuries…
BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the neocon moment seems at last to be…
Alexander Cockburn, in the latest Nation, tells the story of the first time he wrote about Israeli violence against the Palestinians—yes, in retaliation for (lesser) Palestinian violence—and it was removed from the Village Voice, in 1973, in an “unwonted act…
The leftwing blogosphere welcomes Walter A. Davis, the brilliant new editor of MWCNews.net—Media With Conscience. Davis is a leftwing philosopher and author and former Catholic. Right now I’m reading his book about 9/11: Death’s Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since…
Yesterday when I got back from a hike there were several turkeys in my yard in the high grass. I let my dogs out of my car anyway—they can’t catch turkeys. I hadn’t figured that the poults have lately arrived,…
Due to the overly hasty production methods here, I inadvertently referred to the President’s “gay marriage initiative” of yesterday. Now I’m told that the President actually came out against gay marriage. Gosh. I apologize to all my heterosexual readers. I…
I’m collecting good pseudonyms from my spam because I think they are a literary achievement. As any author of fiction can tell you, coming up with names is tough. Here is a list of names attached to recent spam that…
The Times’s unfortunate decision today to give up four columns across the top of the front page to a photograph of Michelle Wie is mitigated by a number of factors: feminism, beauty of composition (props to photog Suzy Allman), and…
My entry on the Sopranos yesterday generated some wise comment. Three readers said I am wrong about feds tipping off mobsters. Most persuasively, Mark: Regarding the agent tipping off Tony; Trust me , it happens. Please reference the famous gangster…