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Lots of interesting stuff today…

18 January 2005

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A new book claiming that Sirhan Sirhan was a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy is getting some attention. This theory (Sirhan is hypnotized, comes in shooting wildly to distract from the real shooter standing behind RFK) has been around forever. When put with the forensic evidence–too many shots, different calibers, and the fatal shot coming from [...]

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Tuesday blog-em-up

7 December 2004

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Jon Schwarz is said to tear The New Yorker a new one in this post. But constructively, always constructively, and with great love. Matt Taibbi’s column in the New York Press this week pinpoints EXACTLY what’s wrong with the Democratic Party (via This Modern World, which also has a nice post here).

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Anonymous Defends the Weather Underground

28 November 2004

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Some readers might remember a post I made a while back after watching “The Weather Underground,” a documentary on the radical group of the late 60s-early 70s. Yesterday, an anonymous reader sent this comment: “If you weren’t there you couldn’t possibly understand. How bad were the Weathermen as compared to a coke snorting, draft dodging [...]

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This fight’s been going on for decades

22 November 2004

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To mark the 41st anniversary of his assassination, I thought I’d pass along a quote from JFK. It struck me when I read it, how similar the battle lines were, then and now. “If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone [...]

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Ed Pugh for President of Iraq

28 October 2004

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Jon Schwarz’ blog, Tinyrevolution.com, reports a mysterious upsurge in popularity in Northern Iraq for former Kansas Sen. Ed Pugh. Can anyone weld together all the bloody remnants of that country, wracked by war and centuries of ethnic and religious strife? ED PUGH CAN! The “Draft Ed Pugh” movement starts HERE.

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Cleese and Hunter Thompson on Bush

25 October 2004

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My dad–who is, by the way, the Republican Party’s worst nightmare, a solid Democrat in a high tax bracket–sent me an email this morning. In it was the following, John Cleese on the Bush Administration: “How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb? None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. [...]

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Sy Hersh says US soldiers…

13 October 2004

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…have participated in a My Lai-style massacre of Iraqis. Whether this particular account proves verifiable or not, how much more evidence do we need that we’re wearing the black hats…again? Elect. Kerry. Now. I want someone in the White House who understands what happens to soldiers and civilians during wartime. Kerry’s been shouting about this [...]

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Checking in…

5 September 2004

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Kate and I have spent most of the last couple of weeks in Lakeside, Michigan, sunning our writing-ravaged bodies in the last rays of summer. And there’s no internet at my parents’ house, so blogging has been forced to a back seat. I LOVE it up there. It’s pretty, quiet, full of good, fresh food, [...]

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Excellent Ted Rall cartoon…

4 May 2004

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…censored by MSNBC (owned, as we all know, by the defense contractor GE) should be required viewing. Take a look here. Also: in honor of the school’s 250th anniversary, the Columbia Spectator has been publishing the people it believes to be the 250 most important alumni the college has produced. Without being too hard on [...]

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A couple of tidbits from the NY Observer…

30 April 2004

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Ron Rosenbaum writes an interesting column about newspapers and management-consulting bullshit. And Robert Sam Anson gives John Kerry some excellent advice.

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