Call it “Pissing Strange.” It’s not the rock musical Mother Jones magazine calls it

The day after CNN reported that None of the above, “Go, Ralph, Go!” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

The 79-year-old graphic designer perhaps most famous for creating the “Where the Truth Lies,” organized by the The Graduate Center, CUNY. “Beliefs must be held lightly because certainty can be the enemy of truth.” Propaganda “substitutes an alien authority for our own perception,” he said, adding that “the intersection of fear and persuasion has created […]

In “Vietnam Redux,” points out, “Now, as then, [the] generals are leading us down the primrose path.” But this kind of news, as Powers says, “gets lost in the noise of other news.” You know: “Obama and the Clintons. The mortgage crisis. Sports. The Hollywood writers’ strike. The Clintons. The weather. Obama. Celebrities in trouble. […]

Big “Where the Truth Lies.” Keynoter: Topics include: How American Presidents Persuade the Public to Go to War. “It is not war that Americans hate, but, rather, unsuccessful wars,” says Eugene Secunda, a marketing and media prof at NYU, per the release. He explains why a majority of Americans “are more than willing to buy […]

Whenever I read or hear about the success of the surge, I substitute the phrase bribes to the tribes. Those four little words make a world of difference, and they go back a long way — viz. President With His Head Up His Ass boasting about our bribes to the tribes. He brags instead, lengthy […]

have a closer look, it’s blood. Artist Life During Wartime, says that before the invasion of Iraq he was fooled into believing “it was going to be a short, ugly, bloody war and that American influence in the Middle East was going to be triumphant.” scholarly works to his credit.) But candor is typical of […]

Center for Public Integrity collects the aaaeulcan lies that took us to war in Iraq. One section highlights write: President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years […]

Just because the NYT editorial these two questions appeared here on Friday. But so what? Ditto for the Noah Feldman article Analysis: Whatever happened to the war? EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Does it matter to the pols running for prez? Does it matter to the people voting for the pols? Let’s see whether the 655,000 estimated earlier by researchers from Johns Hopkins. Yes, the numbers are all over the lot, depending on the source and methodology. Here’s a count of whatever.

The flag-waving has begun, if it ever stopped: After so many years of fear and loathing, we had almost forgotten what it’s like to feel good about our country. On Thursday night, that long-dormant emotion came rushing back, like an old dream that pops out of the deepest recesses of memory, suddenly as clear as […]

The hungover staff realizes it cited the supreme lowlight of 2007 Best Yummy, Best Bulletin, Best Collage, three Best Oldies (Y) and Best Rupe, Best Ghost, Best Beast and

When The New York Times announced that Which prompted a friend to ask two questions: 1) “Hasn’t America suffered enough from the actions of these nut-jobs?” And 2) “Is Kristol the Times’ move in anticipation of the Murdochization of The Wall Street Journal,  sort of the way CNN moved to the right to counter Fox […]

Once upon a time at THE DAILY NEWS I wrote a story called “Christmas on the Bowery.” It began like this: “Monsignor John Ahern, the redoubtable Skid Row priest, is expecting 800 guests Sunday for an early Christmas dinner.” Most will arrive from a dozen grandly named flophouses along the Bowery — the Palace, for […]

Like every two-bit journalist at this time of year, I grabbed a look over my shoulder to see what was left behind. It was uglier than roadkill. The mush rush of the past 12 months turned my stomach. Here’s shitty reminder. Which is where

Sri Aurobindo, the yogi master whose teachings he greatly admired. (E.g.: “An inch of experience goes farther than a yard of logic.” “The example is more powerful than the instruction.” “Yoga means a change of consciousness; a mere mental activity will not bring a change of consciousness, it can only bring a change of mind.”) […]