Archives for 2006

How about this tasty morsel? We’re dumbfounded.

rhyme and reason made good sense to us. That’s why we posted it. This morning’s New York Times offers an endorsement with its lead editorial, Though it lacks Leon Freilich’s meter, the editorial gives more than enough reason to reject Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court —

Edward Allen has. He’s four years old. James Moore, who’s considerably older, has been Clayton Patterson, a Lower East Side activist friend of ours with a long history of arrests, tells us “being targeted is scary. I’m not sure people understand this.” That’s experience talking, and of course they don’t. On Nov. 2, 2004,

Since the judge was sought to distance himself from conservative political opinions he once held (LA Times) and — Leon Freilich *Der Gropenfuhrer either wasn’t listening or didn’t believe Alito when he professsed that no one is “above the law.” For two decades Der Grope has been riding around on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle “even though […]

Our old friend Mugs McGuiness did us another one of his many favors. When he heard about our ‘puter meltdown he sent over a box of used books, figuring that would cheer us up. Which it did. The man has fine taste in litrichur. We picked out of the box a slim Penguin paperback with […]

Gareth Porter isn’t fooled by the American ‘ganda machine. While we were out — thanks to our Dell laptop meltdown — he rang in the New Year for the “US Military Still Runs With Dreaded Wolf Brigade,” just as the Porter — historian, national security policy analyst and author of a new book about the […]