A bit of wisdom from John Coyne, speaking of his book, The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan, in an interview on Peace Corps online (Coyne is a former volunteer): Ben Hogan always said that he had discovered the secret of…
Tom DeLay was on Chris Matthews’ Hardball last night and boy is he weird looking. Too tan, too slick. I wonder if he’s had work done. But he said of Valerie Plame: “She’s not a CIA agent, she’s not out…
Peter Voskamp, the editor of the Block Island (R.I.) Times, has reaffirmed my report that there was political pressure to keep Walt & Mearsheimer, the authors of the bombshell paper criticizing the Israel lobby, from speaking at the Naval War…
My most frequent commenter, a Mr. Anonymous, calls me a “Judenrat” for noting that Leonard Greene, the inventor who takes out ads against the killing of Muslims, is Jewish. Anon goes on: What difference does it make what religion Leonard…
“Racism in Soccer” was the teaser line ESPN kept putting on the screen to hold its audience for the halftime show of the Brazil-Ghana match. When we got to halftime, it turned out to be a report about comments made…
I want to say more about my literary evening at Makor the other night, and about the four authors who read from their contributions to the book Half-Life: Jew-ish Tales From Interfaith Homes. Laurel Snyder ran the show. The book…
Do not overlook Sabrina Tavernese’s splendid story in yesterday’s Times, “Amid Iraqi Chaos, Schools Fill After Long Decline,” which demonstrates that the invasion of Iraq has allowed more kids to go to school, up 27 percent in grades 7-12. The…
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…