The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
Sean MurphyI've said all I care to say about the disgraceful state of affairs at Guantanamo (both the conditions there and the circumstances that brought people there) here and here. But…
Bill Maher is the new Paul Krugman
This man is speaking big, and increasingly necessary, truths. E.J. Dionne articulated the political stakes of the health care "debate", David Sirota looks at the bigger picture and The Krug…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality
"A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm." That quote, attributed to a former CIA official who courageously remains anonymous, seems about as perfectly succinct a crystallization I've yet read regarding…
What Would Touchdown Jesus Do?
If they could just go to church and keep their superstitions to themselves, no one would give a second thought to what Catholics did behind closed doors (or, as the…
Ignorance Is A Warm Gun
Bob Herbert is often angry, and he's almost always correct. While most columnists (even at the liberal NYT) pussyfooted around the issue of the Bush Administration's ineptitude and brazen lawlessness, he…
Camille Paglia Needs an Enema
I have a confession to make. I read Camille Paglia. Of course, being a grad student in the early '90s, it was impossible to avoid Paglia in the Cultural Studies…
Memo to the Lunatic Fringe
Listen up, loonies: Obama is not going to take away your guns. Obama is not interested in taking away your guns. Nobody else is, either. However, if you happen to…
A Half-Assed Howard Beale or, The Crocodile Tears of a Clown
Right now Paddy Chayefsky is: a. Rolling over in his grave b. High-fiving Peter Finch in heaven c. High-fiving Peter Finch in hell (where it's Happy Hour 24/7) d. All…
Jim Webb: Still Fighting
Not a week ago I was thinking to myself how quiet, even absent from the scene, Jim Webb has been since the election. If there is one politician I'm not worried about…
Taking It To The Streets?
In today's NYT, Sudhir Venkatesh (author and Sociology professor at Columbia) contributes an op-ed entitled Too Down To Rise Up, In it he posits the intriguing, and depressing, theory that…