I’ve never been in a room with the That’s former Texas-Ranger-turned-Montana-defense-lawyer Billy Bob Holland talking about a shit heel U.S. senator in It’s hard to go further downhill from there, but Brooks manages: I interview politicians for a living, and every time I brush against Bush I’m reminded that this guy is different. There’s none […]
POST MORTEM
A friend writes: I tried to avoid most of the media coverage of 9/11’s fifth anniversary. I found it too maudlin. When JFK was assassinated, there was — in addition to commentary, flashbacks and on-the- spot reporting — an extraordinary amount of serious classical music programming, including majestic masses and Te Deums by Mozart and […]
BEST 9/11 MEMORIAL
It’s up again tonight.
9/11: THE DAY OF, THE DAY AFTER, THE WEEK AFTER
Starting when the news broke, my report grew longer by the minute. It ran, updated in real time, as MSNBC.com’s cover story. I cobbled together eye-witness accounts — my own, those of others from MSNBC and the Associated Press — writing and rewriting as the catastrophe mounted. NEW YORK, Sept. 11 — It was the […]
NO PARKING FOR 9/11’S FIFTH
Five years later his nose is out of joint, but he’s still the Metro (scroll down), one of the free daily tabs in New York. Council on Foreign Relations on the eve of 9/11’s fifth anniversary. Though useful as a recap of the R. P. Eddy, a counterterrorism expert, that “the terrorists of the next […]
NAKED
This week in Mexico City:
A BACKWARD GLANCE
Here’s an amusing item posted soon after the people re-elected the
FROM THE HOMEFRONT
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Because this blog purports to bring you news of arts and culture, here’s the latest: Our staff of thousands has moved from its cramped Madhattan quarters to spacious 21st-floor digs with a panoramic view of downtown. Now we have room to spread out and, like true aesthetes, hang artworks on the walls. The abstract painting […]
MOCKING THE VICTIMS
Slate “Orphaned,” about children victimized by Hurricane Katrina. On the right is the opposite page, the first of four luxurious pages advertising Eileen Fisher “Alive in the World” clothing that were sandwiched inside DeParle’s piece. “New Orleans was always a place of unsettling juxtapositions,” DeParle writes. So, apparently, is the print edition of the magazine. […]
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
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VACATION INTERRUPTUS
The news from Havana brings to mind
AS THE WORLD BURNS
Just so you know, the last line
HASTA LA BYE-BYE
As they say in New Mexico. Or, as the Marines say in Ramadi,
PORTABLE GREEN ZONE
It’s not just a fortress in Baghdad: The Green Zone is a metaphor for America itself. Our Mr. Fat Backside on down. We needed no reminding. You probably don’t either. But Tom Engelhardt’s Doug Ireland for pointing the way to it on
WISH I WROTE IT
Flagged by the staff wiseass: Are you a true believer? Do you just know deep down in your black Wal-Mart socks that every word of the Bible is the absolute literal truth and nothing dare be doubted and anyone who thinks that God is merely an ambisexual omniblissful bloom of moist divine nondenominational honeydew melon […]
ALL RISE
In from Joe Lauria in The Washington Post. In the matter of the Karl Rove non-indictment, there’s this promised follow-up about Leopold. (Not satisfactory, in my opinion.) But for truthout’s editors this is
RAJ REDUX
Bullshitter-in-Chief are still shitting us. But of course you’d never know that from this morning’s lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal. It rails against Congressman Jack Murtha, who wants an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. The editorial also claims, “President Bush’s surprise visit to Baghdad did a lot to assure Iraqis about U.S. resolve.” […]