This is a story about how the internet works. Late at night a few days ago I did a a somewhat nasty item about Valerie Plame Wilson’s reported $2.5 million advance for a book telling what she’d done in the…
When Brandeis shut down an exhibit of Palestinian art last week, the organizer promptly found a new home for it across town at MIT. Then this week a group of Brandeis faculty started a petition drive to have the exhibit…
Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s remarkable letter to President Bush could (should!) revive a bleeding question surrounding the Iraq war: how many have died because of our invasion? Ahmadinejad put that figure at 100,000: Because of the possibility of the existence of…
Did you notice how awful the Times was to David Blaine today? The stunning end to his marine marathon at Lincoln Center got winked off in the Arts section, while Dan Barry in his Metro section column (sorry—Times Select) seemed…
I went to a friend’s son’s bar mitzvah on Saturday and in some part because of my blog, and its discussion of Jewish politics, felt a little alienated. I forgot to get a yarmulke, then I ran to get one….
Outside the big cities boys entertain themselves by riding around the woods on ATVs—chewing the scenery and melting the glaciers—and vandalizing public works with paintball guns. You see the paintball CO2 canisters strewn in the woods. These kids await their…
When last I visited the subject, my wife had dismissed my criticisms of George Clooney’s political movies, saying I was being mean-spirited. Then fate rallied to my cause. My wife went to the hairdresser and told him about her soft…
As someone who spends a regrettable amount of time watching sports, one thing I look forward to about all the World Cup soccer games I’ll see this summer is, the games end in a timely fashion. Soccer games go 90…