Andrew Sullivan is once again horrified by reports of widespread American torture, this time from Amnesty International. Whatever else this administration has done, whatever other mistakes it has made, this abandonment of long-standing American honor and decency in the military…
I love Professor Juan Cole’s site. He’s been a leading voice against the Iraq war, he knows what he’s talking about and he writes with sympathy for the Arab world from the standpoint of an international American who cherishes America’s…
I stayed up till 1:30 last night to watch the Suns’ victory over the Lakers in overtime. I felt awed by the displays of power by Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash. Nash may lack Kobe’s athleticism, and Jordanity, but it…
Knuckleheads leave their garbage at the trail head, and my dog came out of the bushes with his head stuck in the loop of a bag. He got out on his own.
In retrospect I think that I failed to understand a couple weeks back when my wife said that George Clooney was her type. My wife is good on personalities, and we were talking about actors so I started testing her…
Maybe you haven’t followed the on-line feud over whether rightwing columnist Christopher Hitchens’s alleged alcoholism led him to publish on Slate a statement by the influential scholar Juan Cole that Cole believed to be confidential. Cole had made the statement…
Yesterday when I asked Brandeis troublemaker Lior Halperin whether she was Jewish, she said, “Yes. I’m what people call a self-hating Jew.” I said, “I love you, Lior. Me too.” I’m not a good Jew. I’m probably a bad Jew….
This happened today. Lisa cuts my dogs once or twice a year. I think she likes dogs more than humans. Here she is kissing one of my dogs before she gets to work. Before When she’s done, she puts bandanas…
Booing Johnny Damon—what a bunch of classless ingrates. As I remember, Johnny Damon was playing for the Oakland A’s when the Red Sox took him, by giving him a ton more money, ripping off a small-market club. He came to…