Sarah I love you so much. This weekend at some Ronald Reagan Dinner in Iowa (they just can’t get over him), my heart-throb Sarah let it be known in no uncertain terms that she values the freedom of the press. In her talk she defended it as a sacred right and then condemned professional journalists, … Read more
In our time and place the humility of atonement and the calling to account has a deep imperative. Just open a newspaper or any news website. How fine a mass atonement and a dawning self-awareness would be. This all brings to mind Cantor Yosele Rosenblatt. A recent Times piece about an intrepid audio amateur in … Read more
In the sequel to to Dinner With Schmucks, the mouse-collecting schmuck is played by Republican Intellectual Expert on Persons of Color Dinesh d’Souza. His job for the GOP is to peddle racism for use by others, hoping he gets a pass. Here, in a book and article. he claims that Obama is a tool of … Read more
The corrupt ambitions of Hamid Karzai grow by leaps and bounds. Today’s Times reported his specific intervention in releasing a suspect in custody. Tensions between Mr. Karzai and the Obama administration boiled over this summer after two anti-corruption task forces wiretapped conversations of a Karzai aide soliciting a bribe and threw him in jail. Mr. … Read more
John Boehner, Republican Leader in the House and hilarious and horrifying shill for Wall Street, showed signs of courage this weekend, when he signaled he might compromise a bit on taxes. Obama says the Bush tax cuts be repealed ONLY for the rich. Boehner started to move that way, but got slapped down by his … Read more
