You don’t get anything like the buckfush.com editorial illustration, below, anywhere in The New York Times. But the subscriber-based Talking Points personal opinion pieces by editorial page editor Gail Collins. She writes about everything from fictional women in American politics, i.e., the new TV show “Commander in Chief” (“The Gender Landscape: It’s Reigning Men”). “Faux […]

Harriet Miers, right, the trusted adviser and legal gofer he nominated this morning to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. What does that say about Miers’s judicial temperament, let alone his arrogance? Next question … So here it is: Did she really say (this comes courtesy of Salon.com’s David Frum is […]

We’ve been reading On the day he lost his innocence before the eyes of the world, Sergeant Javal Davis was sitting in the mess hall at Victory Base in Abu Ghraib prison, eating a plate of rice and tuna fish. It was April 28, 2004. Insurgents were still launching the occasional rocket-propelled grenade at their […]

the world is one big blog, God may become a blogger, too. That’s not a certainty, of course, we’re merely speculating. But at the very least He’s about to get his own first-ever God Blog Convention two weeks from now in southern California. GodBlogCon, as it’s being called, will feature keynote speaker Vestal Virigins, like […]

Leave it to Broussard on NBC’s Meet the Press three weeks ago, “angrily lamenting the failure of the national government to act in a timely manner in the face of Katrina” — the name tickled a “sense memory” in his brain, and he recalled buying a vinyl LP, right, which had been released by “the […]

Notice anything peculiar? We do. If you don’t, we’re not going to tell you what it is. But we’ll give you a hint, Mr. Jones. It has to do with news judgment (i.e. how the breaking story of DeLay’s indictment was headlined on the MSNBC.com cover). It also makes you wonder how the Web’s most […]

Playing catch-up on this, but only by hours, and it’s never too late for such news. Here’s UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge’s Speculation about his drinking — like this this is no rumor, we’re glad to say. — Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Jeb Eddy, the email exchange with a critic, John Armor, who claims Eddy is just a Democrat in disguise. critics like him is that they’re making Eddy’s own case for him. By arguing that Eddy is not really G.O.P. ilk — mainly because he has given contributions to Democrats and doesn’t believe in the current […]

Something else for Christopher Hitchens to chew on, the phoney peacenik. Fishback is a West Point graduate from Michigan and son of a Vietnam War veteran, according to

Christopher Hitchens (who Wizbang!, Shock & Blog, but rather “a big, fat, liberal phony — but that’s being redundant, isn’t it?”) both make the case that the press can’t be trusted to clarify the issues or even to lay out the facts because it’s biased, stupid, easily fooled and, not least, amnesiac. In answer to […]

Press inquiries keep coming about Samuel Thompson, the lone violinist who played Bach for fellow refugees at the Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center. The latest arrived a few days ago from Li Chen, a reporter in China who saw our items about Thompson, and asked to be put in touch with him for […]

“Fallujah is the Guernica of our time,” former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has said over and over. He said it again at the antiwar protest in Washington, where he once more termed the current occupant of the White House a The Nuremberg judgment calls the war of aggression the supreme international crime. It’s the […]

Morning round-up: “US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan — an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed — that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand,” We know Christopher Hitchens insists it’s a lie — see his debate with George Galloway (scroll down for the video) — but the British medical […]

Norman Mailer, where are you? An estimated 300,000 people turned out, protest organizers said, which was “triple their original target.” A mere 200 counter-demonstrators or so showed up outside the FBI building, the Post reports. The Bullshitter-in-Chief was out of town. Out to lunch, too, where he usually is. donor to peace causes, environmental causes […]

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