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Doug Ireland, “This” refers to his exclusive publication of Pasolini’s major poem Norman MacAfee, who also selected and translated Pasolini, above, whose mutilated body was found in a vacant lot 20 miles outside of Rome on Nov. 2, 1975, was “a giant polymath of postwar Italian culture” who “frequently celebrated homosexuality in his writings and […]

Managed to reboot without India’s help. … As interview about it is), and the remark has gone unnoticed in this That remark serves as a stunning commentary on the bizarre thinking of top policy-makers and the strangely personalized way policy was, and doubtless still is, made at the top of the U.S. war regime. Was […]

We recommend Maureen Dowd’s neatly executed tribute to Vice, the Bullshitter-in-Chief’s pet moniker for the “Dick at the Heart of Darkness.” If the double entendre isn’t clear enough, her column begins: After W. was elected, he sometimes gave visitors a tour of the love alcove off the Oval Office where Bill trysted with Monica — […]

obvious reasons. Still, the HOW DO WE LOVE THEE?LET US COUNT THE TIMES “We’re behind you, Judy, 700 percent,” Aver both Bill and Pinch As they greet her in the city room And embrace her in a clinch. Days later, “We’re with you 300 percent,” Affirm both Pinch and Bill. And when the honeymoon goes […]

It’s hard to keep up with all the corruption. The like this : Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp. Let alone the Mozart’s […]

Miss Piggy. Her first novel, has all the insouciant vocal tics and mannerisms that made Miss Piggy so truly, truly je ne sais quoi. Who knew Kakutani was such a great ventriloquist? She’d like us to believe it’s Holly speaking, which is pretty clever — and entertaining, too. And we went for it, except that […]

About you know what. Like “The Miller Mess: Lingering Issues Among the Answers.” Richard W. Stevenson and Douglas Jehl report on the front page: “Karl and Scooter’s Excellent Adventure.” But we want to call your attention to David Brooks on review of “Veronica,” Mary Gaitskill’s

Maureen Dowd got personal with Judy Miller in her column headlined, “Woman of Mass Destruction,” on Saturday. We’d rather call it Bill Keller’s guilty plea, issued in a memo late Friday afternoon, which made it a fair assumption that Miss Run Amuck is unlikely to be allowed back to cover anything at all. Then we […]

God Blog Convention came and went, and we neglected it even though we’d announced it in advance. But you can catch up on Hugh Hewitt, right, the rightwing broadcaster-author-blogger who aired his radio show from GodBlogCon, while an

it could go in his family album. Mother would be proud. He even avoided the customary perp walk. Compared to Bugsy Siegal in his mugshot, right, The Hammer looks like he was posing for the church choir. But, in fact, he was being conspiracy and money-laundering. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Famous last words from Judy Miller in her As I painfully learned while covering intelligence estimates of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, we are only as good as our sources. If they are wrong, we will be wrong. “Or if,” she might have added, “we are treated like a ragdoll (click for the demo). […]

Few if any bloggers have flattened Judy Miller’s tires with more gusto than David Ehrenstein, and so what if he can’t spell. Witness Thoroughly Postmodern Miller, from earlier this week, and today’s Random Thoughts and Unanswered Questions (a detailed enterprise), or yesterday’s Bill Keller’s Surprising Admission (wanner still). Even so, she has gotten off some […]

Do you mean to say that Tom Friedman has written a Since you can’t read the column online unless you have access to subscribers-only his point is timely, today especially. And finally, this reaction from another delegate member, the editor of a new Iraq newspaper, as he watched the rehearsed videoconference between the Bullshitter-in-Chief and […]

You had to “The Torture Question,” documenting more clearly than ever Except that Schlesinger’s analogy, however well intended, fails to communicate what really happened, and how far up the chain of command responsibility went. No mystery there, of course. It went right to the very top. Today you can join the discussion, which is available […]

Everybody’s talking — OK, not everybody, just us savvy media folks — about the the trouble with mergers, from The Economist (1994). Our second choice is the one by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz mapping the post-9/11 country of der Spiegel online.) –Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Susan Feeney Fleet, trumpet player and feminist extraordinaire, lives in Metairie, La., in an apartment complex owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, which is about to evict her and all her neighbors, despite what she terms “livable” conditions and only minor flood damage. She saw Fleet, whose gorgeous playing is recorded on “A band […]