Archives for October 2006

Now for a change of pace: “Notre Dame de Video,” a leetle sumzeeng I made for the arts fest TROIS SOIRS PARMI long ago in très gai Paris. Thought you might get a tsk-tsk out of a few video stills. NDdV ran on a bill with Jochen Gerz’s very sober conceptual piece, “La Salle et […]

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Two news reports. One about a former Chilean dictator. One about our This from Reuters regarding Augusto Pinochet’s arrest for torture, murder and kidnapping early in his regime and Military Commissions Act of 2006. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Lenny Bruce once said, “Yada, yada. Yada, yada, yada, warden!” Meanwhile, ever on the lookout to probe deeply, Henninger noticed: The burden of war … has not sapped Mr. Bush physically. … The hair’s gone gray, but there is little sign of fatigue in his face or demeanor. I asked how he stays normal: “Prayer […]

When you think of all those novels, “Ragtime” most famously, but also “The Book of Daniel,” “Welcome to Hard Times,” his latest “The March,” and so on. But wait a minute! The guy’s a terrific essayist. “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution,” an out-of-print collection of his selected essays you can pick up for a […]

Given the name of this blog, my staff of thousands dared me: Chris Mac, a k a Chris McNamara, snowboarding in midair over Lover’s Leap (a climb “Rated X”) above Lake Tahoe, California. Photo © Summit Journal, an

Now for the latest addition to the Ministry of Truth’s dictionary of Newspeak, Bullshitter-in-Chief: “We’ve never been stay the course. …” For the record, note the difference between a skeptical story of the uncourse told with a smile, “Bush Abandons Phrase ‘Stay the Course’ on Iraq.” The first, from the Washington Post, begins: President Bush […]

The military analysis by Michael Gordon, MILITARY’S BAGHDAD PLAN: LAST CHANCE TO SECURE IRAQ The analysis is not new news. It’s basically a wrap-up of what’s been happening in the neighborhoods controlled by the militias or threatened by the death squads in the genocidal civil war there. And it’s curiously bloodless, making no mention of […]

We shall not want: MIAMI (said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Methinks

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I never read Lloyd Grove’s gossip column in New York’s Daily News. So I dunno how good, bad or indifferent it was. But he seems to be getting lots of mileage out of being dumped, including an “A Walk on the Wild Side,” the title of Nelson Algren’s classic 1956 novel (set among the pimps, […]

So much goes by so swiftly, there’s no point in trying to catch up. But KO’s recent editorials must be noted as knockouts. I’m thinking particularly of his Watch it. Read it. Relish it. The “Countdown,” Olbermann’s daily cable show on MSNBC, has I’ve been watching him a long time & he just gets better. […]

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