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 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…
Now Italy is playing the most important game of its life with a man down. Who wants to watch this farce? Soccer should change its foul rules.
The Slate party last Thursday night in the marble hall of the New York Public Library was not at all tinselly Till Donny Graham Who served in Nam Toasted the great Kinsley
A few years back I wrote a tough piece for the Times Magazine about a Blake Edwards’ show on Broadway called Victor/Victoria. Edwards had let me hang out with the production as long as I wanted. When I wrote the…
Will someone write an article about what language(s) are being used at the World Cup? By the announcers? The referees? The players? English, Esperanto, German, I need to know.
In order to rationalize watching just about every game of the World Cup, I’ve been painting woodwork while I watch. Now that I’m in the bathroom, I have to move TVs around, and to do that I have had to…