Archives for October 2005

Somebody feeling provoked, polarized or just plain pole-axed might get the wrong idea and mis-read the headline on this MSNBC.com cover illustration:

Politely put, “it sometimes seems” they are like this. — Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

From a conscript in the Army of the Tireless, this photo “found while browsing” and caption for same: Upon hearing of the ravages caused by hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush went into immediate action. He sends this reference, too: Articulate, writes: “Blimey” and

rightwingnuts. It was their failed questionnaire. It was, get this, the White Houses’s own

Doug Ireland, “This” refers to his exclusive publication of Pasolini’s major poem Norman MacAfee, who also selected and translated Pasolini, above, whose mutilated body was found in a vacant lot 20 miles outside of Rome on Nov. 2, 1975, was “a giant polymath of postwar Italian culture” who “frequently celebrated homosexuality in his writings and […]

Managed to reboot without India’s help. … As interview about it is), and the remark has gone unnoticed in this That remark serves as a stunning commentary on the bizarre thinking of top policy-makers and the strangely personalized way policy was, and doubtless still is, made at the top of the U.S. war regime. Was […]

We recommend Maureen Dowd’s neatly executed tribute to Vice, the Bullshitter-in-Chief’s pet moniker for the “Dick at the Heart of Darkness.” If the double entendre isn’t clear enough, her column begins: After W. was elected, he sometimes gave visitors a tour of the love alcove off the Oval Office where Bill trysted with Monica — […]

obvious reasons. Still, the HOW DO WE LOVE THEE?LET US COUNT THE TIMES “We’re behind you, Judy, 700 percent,” Aver both Bill and Pinch As they greet her in the city room And embrace her in a clinch. Days later, “We’re with you 300 percent,” Affirm both Pinch and Bill. And when the honeymoon goes […]

It’s hard to keep up with all the corruption. The like this : Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp. Let alone the Mozart’s […]

Miss Piggy. Her first novel, has all the insouciant vocal tics and mannerisms that made Miss Piggy so truly, truly je ne sais quoi. Who knew Kakutani was such a great ventriloquist? She’d like us to believe it’s Holly speaking, which is pretty clever — and entertaining, too. And we went for it, except that […]

About you know what. Like “The Miller Mess: Lingering Issues Among the Answers.” Richard W. Stevenson and Douglas Jehl report on the front page: “Karl and Scooter’s Excellent Adventure.” But we want to call your attention to David Brooks on review of “Veronica,” Mary Gaitskill’s

Maureen Dowd got personal with Judy Miller in her column headlined, “Woman of Mass Destruction,” on Saturday. We’d rather call it Bill Keller’s guilty plea, issued in a memo late Friday afternoon, which made it a fair assumption that Miss Run Amuck is unlikely to be allowed back to cover anything at all. Then we […]

God Blog Convention came and went, and we neglected it even though we’d announced it in advance. But you can catch up on Hugh Hewitt, right, the rightwing broadcaster-author-blogger who aired his radio show from GodBlogCon, while an

it could go in his family album. Mother would be proud. He even avoided the customary perp walk. Compared to Bugsy Siegal in his mugshot, right, The Hammer looks like he was posing for the church choir. But, in fact, he was being conspiracy and money-laundering. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Famous last words from Judy Miller in her As I painfully learned while covering intelligence estimates of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, we are only as good as our sources. If they are wrong, we will be wrong. “Or if,” she might have added, “we are treated like a ragdoll (click for the demo). […]