"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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A one-two punch that makes me feel worse, not better, than I did yesterday. First, at The Huffington Post, comes Robert Kuttner's ominously entitled Geithner's Last Stand, here. Then,…
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