Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews gave LA congresswoman Jane Harman political cover by allowing her to sound off against the Bush Administration on Iraq. She blamed it for “enormous mistakes” in the conduct of the war and for taking…
NBC’s George Lewis did a piece on the Nightly News last night on the issue of elderly drivers’ dreadful performance and had the courage to say he is over 60 and has limited vision because of an arthritic neck. Instructors…
I’ve gotten many interesting claims on what Materazzi said to make Zidane headbutt him. Here are three, the first operatic, the second the most logical, the third perhaps most psychologically plausible.: 1. From Elmer Fudd: Text being spread thru the…
I’m no soccer nut, but this morning I frantically searched Yahoo news without satisfaction to learn what Marco Materazzi said to Zidane to generate the most important moment in the ’06 World Cup. Then two friends emailed me with the…
My report on a literary evening at Makor brought another demurral, on points large and small, from Triangle author Katharine Weber: I did not say “cramped,” but crammed. My mother being raised in a Protestant identity bubble by her Protestant…
A week or so back on Democracy Now, Amy Goodman brought together author Norman G. Finkelstein and AIPAC’s Josh Block to talk about the Gaza troubles. Block, the spokesman for the Israel lobby, made a point of flashing his credentials:…
There we were jammed on to Spring Street in the 26th minute, watching the Adidas-sponsored Jumbotron, along with I don’t know, 5,000 other soccer fans, when the screen went black. We all waited for it to spark back on. Nothing….
Last night on the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks defended Sen. Joe Lieberman from attacks on the internet. Brooks is an astute and insightful writer, but he is too often indirect, and last night he abandoned any duty to be specific:…
Two years ago Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi blew our minds with a samizdat email from Baghdad, quickly circulated everywhere, showing it was impossible to live in a normal way in that city. Old news now. Today a Journal…