And now we defer to the merry holiday. For wicked wunnerful, ya can’t beat William S. Burroughs, who wrote the tale way back in 1952, narrates. Christmas music swells as the camera tilts in on him, standing by the living room fireplace. He takes a book down from the shelf and sits in an armchair […]

Forget the substance, look at the form:

For his special comments, Bullshitter-in-Chief and his regime of aaaeulc cronies.

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Finally, an acknowledgment of Sunni genocide as the aaaeulc‘s sub rosa policy in Iraq: “We shall call it the Darwin Principle,” Cooper writes of the policy, also referring to it as “the Shiite option.” One unnamed senior regime official is quoted as calling it the “stare into the abyss” strategy. Although the policy is couched […]

Do we really need a book about the impact of Watergate on the lives and careers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? We already know what happened to them. Woodward went on to write a shelfload of best sellers about the government, told from the inside, and Bernstein joined the glitterati. “Woodward and Bernstein: Life […]

Don’t treat it as a “recipe for our defeat,” says John McCain. At last we’ve come to the real terms of debate over the Bullshitter-in-Chief has ever offered a recipe for anything but. You have to wonder about their sanity and their tastebuds. Baker asked pols to eat the report whole, not to pick at […]

It’s always refreshing to see the news of the day told with accuracy, in this case the Iraq Study Group Report: In light of the report’s stark warning that the situation in Iraq was “grave and deteriorating,” Mr. Bush came close to acknowledging mistakes the Bullshitter showed just how delusional he is. “You wanted frankness […]

But the lyrics have a certain swing, ring,

Bullshitter-in-Chief] insisted that the ‘graceful exit’ of American troops, he was missing By the way, the report is already on two best-seller lists. At the moment it’s No. 3 on Amazon. I haven’t read it yet, just the news stories about it. To judge from the first sentence by the study group’s co-chairmen — “There […]

William Phillips, asked me to review Daniel Odier’s Why mention this now? No particular reason, except to note that the utterances that leaked out of the cut-up still seem as pertinent (dated references notwithstanding) as they did then. For example: We have heard children of the Jews on the way to the ovens. What are […]

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“If you’re doin’ business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn’t worth shit, not with the Good Lord tellin’ him how to fuck you on the deal.” That excellent advice, offered long ago by William S. Burroughs, puts the Iran’s chief Jew hater in the proper perspective. The […]

Tuvia Tenenbom except what I’ve read. Never met him. Never saw any of his plays. I’m not much of a theatergoer these days. After reading his video posted on YouTube, however, I plan to see Jewish Theater of New York, apparently has a combination of brains and balls rarely found in the world, let alone […]

David Remnick must have taken my sterling advice. (almost entirely online? Next week’s might not be, so get it while it lasts. Postscript: And isn’t it nice to see Eric Alterman’s Pants On Fire, while managing to cop Frank Rich’s

Do I detect the rank smell of condescension in the Joseph C. Wilson IV, who, it so happens, is exactly right about Olbermann and the press). I could go on (and on). For instance, to the tut-tutting about KO’s coverage of celebrities like Tom Cruise, and so forth, but that’s getting too picky. Which is […]

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