I banned someone from commenting today, using an IP address. Maybe he’ll be back, I’ll try and get on it if he does. It’s hard to know if I even got him… Thanks to Charles Keating for doing some detective…
I asked Jerome Slater, the author of a groundbreaking paper on the ways in which the Times has failed to inform Americans of the human right crisis in Palestine, to respond to my post this a.m. on Anthony Lewis, the…
The estimable Ari Berman has an interesting piece in the Nation on the rightwing and neocon smears of Obama as a Muslim (which he isn’t) and as a critic of Israel (which he might be). Berman is outraged by the…
In rereading Norman Finkelstein’s book, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, I noticed that in the furor that occured in the mid-80s over the false issue of Whether there were even Palestinians in Palestine when Israel was born, an…
I know someone, who knows someone, who knows the Spitzers, and my source tells me that their source says the Spitzers have a sexy marriage. (Or had one). That they’re into one another, they both are sexual people. This is…
A lot of people are asking why Eliot Spitzer’s wife Silda Wall stood by him at his two agonized speeches at the end of his governorship. Of course I have no idea why she did it. But I think about…
Eliot Spitzer’s departure reminds me of an assassination. A week ago everything was fine. A week later, he’s gone. No drawn-out trial or scandal, no time for both sides–poof. A non-person. I still think it’s unfair, and that prostitution should…
My friend Michael Massing has a wonderful piece of reporting in the latest New York Review of Books on who is the volunteer army. It is not a statistical hodgepodge, no, he went to Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y., to…
I don’t think I got it right about what is happening in Australia; I’m going to take another crack at it. And I thank the commenters who corrected me. Last Wednesday, a group called Al-Nakba ran a large newspaper ad…