Archives for November 2005

In re: said so little about recent genocides, like the genocide in Darfur, or for that matter, the

When 16,000 demonstrators marched in Columbus, Ga., earlier this month to protest U.S. military involvement in torture, they received less national attention than the Thanksgiving Day Local press offered the best, most extensive, coverage of the protesters, who demanded that the Army shutter its Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly the School of the […]

The Telegraph reports. The game’s creator “opposes the US presence in Iraq,” according to the London daily, but he’s been criticized “for capitalising on war.” His response: “As an American, I was raised to believe that we should have ideas and try to make money out of them. That’s the American way.” Spoken like a […]

Courtesy of an Air Force colonel: Battle Hymn of the Republicans Mine Eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling moron Bush; he has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can push; he has lost sight of all reason ’cause his head is up his tush; The Doofus marches on. I have heard him […]

Louis Menand writes that “From the Ashes,” was pretty remarkable, too — that is, until our friend William Osborne — an American expat composer, musicologist and cultural observer who has lived in Europe for more than a quarter century — offered his take on it. Menand, left, writes: “The European model, Judt says, was mostly […]

The best, least fawning part of George Will’s grammatically challenged

Bullshitter-in-Chief to bomb an Arab TV station in Qatar, a key Gulf ally — is one more reason to ask (along with the protesters, below): “Would somebody please just give him a blowjob so we can get him impeached?! Somebody?!” Yesterday’s The Guardian reports today. The British government claims the Bullshitter was only joking, and […]

Need we say more? — Tireless Staff of Thousands Postscript: Yeah, yeah, why we call him the Bullshitter-in-Chief, not —

Click the photo to see the entire sequence. Then there was the serious stuff about Curveball: BERLIN — The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the […]

On the evidence of Ethan Bronner’s “The Great War for Civilisation,” we couldn’t help wondering: Is this what The New York Times really thinks, or is the paper’s Contrary to Bronner’s review, we find Brit journalist Robert Fisk’s massive book enlightening, beautifully written, filled with the skeptical wisdom of bitter experience. It’s both an absorbing […]

Mein gott in la la land! Der Ahhhnold ist ein multi-talented mutter humper, ja? The Gangwashi Church theme park for the Forbidden City? With — Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

In a word: “The Prince and the Showgirl,” starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe] was a disaster almost from the beginning. Olivier should have expected trouble. He had asked William Wyler what she was like to work with, and he had replied, “Hitler.” “Olivier,” a new biography based almost exclusively on primary sources. In fact, […]

Our favorite philosopher John Gray on René Descartes, by way of a nauseating shouts of a radical Muslim, as he watches an old video showing the decapitation of Nicholas Berg by his Iraqi captors: “Go to hell, enemy of God! Kill him! Kill him! Yes, like that! Cut his throat properly. Cut his head off! […]

He’s never at a loss for rhymes. In re: the — Leon Freilich EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

“Europe Central” — the WWII tale to remember. Most people have never heard of Elser, although he nearly changed the course of history 66 years ago this month — on Nov. 8, 1939, to be precise — when he tried to assassinate Hitler by planting a bomb in the Munich beer hall where the Führer […]

Isn’t it time to drop religious faith from human belief? Kansas Yahoos will be dogging us forever with their biblical delusions. In an article in Harvard Magazine called There is something deep in religious belief that divides people and amplifies societal conflict. In the early part of this century, the toxic mix of religion and […]