BnnRpbinever did believe him. (It’s too bad she’s taken Bullshitter-in-Chief‘s latest pile of droppings. The headline put it politely, “President’s Evasion Raises Truth Issues.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Throw open the records. Let the sunshine in. Subpoena power to the people. Now that voters have finally said Bullshitter-in-Chief and way past time to put a full stop to the aaaeulc. Postscript:

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British journalist 2006 Lifetime Achievement Prize for Cultural Freedom. It carries a cash award of $350,000. As Borat might say: “Verr nize!” “The Great War for Civilisation,” which, ironically, the NYT Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year. If you haven’t had a chance to read Fisk, have a look at the column he […]

“The Good Fight Continues,” a collection of World War II letters from the soldiers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. You remember them, of course. You don’t? Well! “They were a volunteer army of about 2,800 men and women who had enlisted to defend the Spanish Republic from military rebels during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939),” […]

We’ll see whether the Bullshitter-in-Chief and his minions. David Brooks, in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan?) Not to single him out — although he also deserves it for

I’m a sucker for a pretty picture. Like this one, made by the guy who used to be Newsweek’s art critic:

Death was never very far from his mind. “Once, when serving with the Marines, Styron was stationed on a desolate island in New York City’s East River where unclaimed bodies of the dead were buried.” So went my intro to an interview he gave me many years ago. (He ‘Lie Down in Darkness,’ his first […]

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