Now that the President’s approval has finally broken the 30 percent floor (why did it take so long?), wouldn’t it be fairer to everyone to switch over to raw numbers? It might make the President feel better if today’s news…
The appropriately-named FactChequer blasts me for failing to mention the foundations and not-for-profits when talking about the left’s power yesterday. You look at academia, where people are paid to sit around and jaw, and say that all the Left does…
I met the late Abe Rosenthal once and spent a couple of hours with him, long enough to experience his famous temper. He had alot of rage inside him, which the fly-by psych in me would pinpoint to a tortuous…
One of the chapters left out of yesterday’s Times obit of Rosenthal was his treatment of gay staff members when he was managing editor and executive editor. Gay people say he was oppressive. “It was the presumption of everyone at…
Lately I fingered Anonymous as Joe Wilson. Anonymous promptly responded: I posted as anonymous, and I’m not Joe Wilson. I just thought your piece was unkind and unnecessary. Thank you for being open minded and reading Ambassador Wilson’s book. I…
What if George Bush were to say tomorrow that our motivation for going into Iraq was to secure oil wealth for the west and to protect Israel—might that reverse his slide in the polls? A splendid post on Syria Comment,…
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…