Jason Horowitz’s fine piece on the Lieberman-Lamont race in this week’s Observer contains a stretcher, or 2, from N.Y. Congressman Anthony Weiner: ‘[T]he Palestinian position seems to be perfect for the Internet world of pithy back-and-forth and 30-second You Tube…
I turned on Charlie Rose yesterday at lunch and had one of those frozen-to-the-table experiences. He was doing a three-part series on Warren Buffett, which concludes tonight. Rose gets access, and the access has been rewarded with an incredibly intimate…
Umm. Commenter recentdemocrat points out that Jane Harman won her primary June 6. Still doesn’t justify her war stance, or eliminate Matthews’s responsibility to take her on, but… Looks like the Observer’s going to have to dock my pay again.
Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews gave LA congresswoman Jane Harman political cover by allowing her to sound off against the Bush Administration on Iraq. She blamed it for “enormous mistakes” in the conduct of the war and for taking…
My report on a literary evening at Makor brought another demurral, on points large and small, from Triangle author Katharine Weber: I did not say “cramped,” but crammed. My mother being raised in a Protestant identity bubble by her Protestant…
There we were jammed on to Spring Street in the 26th minute, watching the Adidas-sponsored Jumbotron, along with I don’t know, 5,000 other soccer fans, when the screen went black. We all waited for it to spark back on. Nothing….
Last night on the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks defended Sen. Joe Lieberman from attacks on the internet. Brooks is an astute and insightful writer, but he is too often indirect, and last night he abandoned any duty to be specific:…
A week or so back I did a snarky take on Laurel Snyder’s new book, Half-Life: Jew-ish Tales From Interfaith Homes and a reading she had at Makor , then walked away whistling. But after trying to comment on my…
I thought Lamont won, but then I’m crazed about Iraq. My wife and Imus both said that Lieberman won. He seemed far more rounded as a person. Imus called Lamont a pencil-neck. But if Lieberman won, he damaged himself among…