One of my gurus is Nancy Horn, a therapist who lives in Central Pennsylvania and understands Israel/Palestine as well as anyone. She didn’t like what I said today about Bruce Ivins (where I basically convicted him ex posthumo of the…
Today on ESPN Skip Bayless said the difference between Andy Pettitte and Barry Bonds is Andy Pettitte apologized for using human growth hormone. We got past it. Today Osama bin Laden’s driver apologized to the American people. I like that….
Yesterday’s Times mentioned Jeffrey Katzenberg as one of Obama’s big donors. Katzenberg is a progressive. His early support of Obama and refusal to back Hillary–he also gave $2000 to John Edwards last spring–was a widely-observed signal of Obama’s strength in…
The Jerusalem Post is giving Abe Foxman a blog platform to deny that neoconservatism has a Jewish connection, to deny that neocons played a role in the Iraq war, and so forth. Basically to jump all over Joe Klein on…
Just a glance at the amazing evidence against Bruce Ivins collected by the FBI raises two big questions: How come this guy was working for the government so long? And, why didn’t someone dime him out, say a family member…
A continuing series on Darfur, by James North: Here’s a fascinating look at some courageous American athletes who boycotted Hitler’s Olympics in 1936; I knew none of this. But the implication is that Beijing should be boycotted now, over Darfur….
I’ve neglected to blog about two ideas I heard on TV that seemed important. 1. Chris Matthews, a history buff, has been praising Eisenhower. And not just praising Ike for his political marketing, as this Times Op-Ed column did. But…
I went into the city tonight, bought the Times. I must admit this doesn’t happen every day. And there on the front page were two photographs of K2 and a pretty good story about the deaths on the mountain, then…
This Times piece about rabbis who will teach rich busy executives the Torah in their offices left out some of the main business of the religious group, Aish HaTorah: rightwing Zionism. It opposes the peace process, with the usual invective…