This Reuters piece uses the adjective “nebbishy” without quotes or explanation to describe the character in some Al Franken movie project. I grew up with this word. It was then Jewish and defined our difference and exceptionalism– in this case…
Yesterday people got to write me off as “far left.” Today I find that I’m “on the left.” Tomorrow I might be sitting in your lap, America… I shouldn’t be cute. A long time ago I read some theory of…
Yes, I’ve misrepresented a headline, but here’s the actual one: “Israel fears Obama may make peace with Iran.” Wait: Maybe in it’s in our interest to end 30 years of saber-rattling with a regional power? And maybe, as Trita Parsi…
Here is Rahm Emanuel sounding neocon themes of regime change and Israel-first, right after the Lebanon war started in 2006. In this speech on the House floor, he justifies Israeli militarism: The so-called democratically elected governments on the West Bank…
Here is Rahm Emanuel writing to Condoleezza Rice last year when there was a war going on between Fatah and Hamas. He and a Lebanese-American colleagued feared for the Palestinian children who couldn’t get to school. we are calling on…
The news says Rahm Emanuel is gonna be chief of staff. Here is Congressman Rahm Emanuel, the likely gatekeeper to Obama, blaming the Palestinians for the violence in Israel/Palestine in ’07–Emanuel saying that a cycle of violence that has wracked…
Jack Ross writes from Brooklyn: I spent election night at my regular club, a folk oriented place in Red Hook, owned by a couple who knew Barack and Michelle in Chicago (the lady of the couple worked for the organization…
I’m still thinking a lot about Obama’s character, the fact that he ran a perfect race and we have little idea of his inner life. There was no spontaneity in his speech last night. I can’t think of one line…
I visited my wife au bain this morning and she had a couple of psychological insights. McCain and his wife have no real relationship. He did not touch her on stage, they seemed to avoid one another, didn’t look at…