One of the amazing/humbling things about blogging is how smart the readers are. As a traditional journalist, I always got to be smarter than my readers; no more. I’ve been corrected on intellectual points again and again, and the correctors…
The American Enterprise Institute has been all over the New York Times this week. First it was Sally Satel, resident scholar, on the Op-Ed page Monday, saying Let’s have a free market for the sale of human organs. Then yesterday…
Today’s Times has a good piece about the leftwing rage toward Joe Lieberman for being George Bush’s lapdog on the disastrous Iraq policy. Even the Daily Kos has come out for Lieberman’s primary opponent, Ned Lamont, who wants Connecticut to…
I went into the Observer offices yesterday to see my editor. We’re old friends. (Yes, Virginia, it is about who you know). I complimented him for the Sopranos cover of the Observer then I asked him what he was doing…
Roscoe Bartlett I was supposed to go somewhere yesterday afternoon when I turned on C-Span and saw a somewhat stooped old guy on the House floor talking about the end of oil supplies, whipping out one chart after another. The…
If you watch as much TV sports as I do, and care as much about popular culture, there comes a day when you wake up and say to yourself, Why am I in love with that Geico gecko? I called…
On Sunday I left my mom a message, thereby getting essential Mother’s Day credit, and when we talked yesterday she said excitedly that she had heard rumors that Karl Rove was about to be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak…
The hardest thing for me to write in the last couple weeks was a bit I did on Jewish superiority. I was pleased to see I got some positive comments, including this from JooToo: I’d be interested to hear your…
Florida Rabbi Bruce Warshal takes on Jewish neocons in the St. Louis Jewish Light, in an article accepting the truth of much of Mearsheimer-Walt’s Israel lobby paper. Here’s the money quote: 400 rabbis, including myself, signed a letter sponsored by…