I was surprised to see reporter Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times, who co-broke the story of the Bush Administration’s surveillance of millions of private bank records, pitted on the PBS NewsHour last night with Curt Weldon, a Republican…
As I calculate it, there’ve been six games in the second round with a total of eight goals. Total elapsed time: 600 minutes. That’s a goal every 75 minutes. Ugh. Even a sportsfiend like myself has a hard time watching…
Now Italy is playing the most important game of its life with a man down. Who wants to watch this farce? Soccer should change its foul rules.
If you go to the Foreign Policy website, you see the new magazine cover with the giant question: “Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power?” This is of course a response to Walt & Mearsheimer, who are given the…
The Slate party last Thursday night in the marble hall of the New York Public Library was not at all tinselly Till Donny Graham Who served in Nam Toasted the great Kinsley
A few years back I wrote a tough piece for the Times Magazine about a Blake Edwards’ show on Broadway called Victor/Victoria. Edwards had let me hang out with the production as long as I wanted. When I wrote the…
Two weeks back, Paul Krugman got off a brilliant stroke in the Times, when he cited that “peculiar rule, which still prevails in Washington, that you have to have been wrong about Iraq to be considered credible on national security.”…
Will someone write an article about what language(s) are being used at the World Cup? By the announcers? The referees? The players? English, Esperanto, German, I need to know.
In order to rationalize watching just about every game of the World Cup, I’ve been painting woodwork while I watch. Now that I’m in the bathroom, I have to move TVs around, and to do that I have had to…