Camille Paglia Needs an Enema
Sean MurphyI 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…
Props to Nick Anderson and Apologies to Smokey Robinson
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Obama: Time to break out the Fagles
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,…
You Using the Whole Fist, Wall Street?
I can't get that hot, asphalt taste out of my mouth. We're all out of money, it seems, but there is plenty of tar to go around. I was only…
This Just In: Richard Cohen is still a Clown
I've found ample reason to be disgusted with Richard Cohen's clownish and self-aggrandizing claptrap many times in the past, including back in January, when I made the following observation: When…
Dead Man Walking
Abortion is a woman's choice? Homsexuality is not a choice? What on earth is a high profile Republican doing make comments like this, in public? There is absolutely no place…