Well, they are coming, slowly and fitfully, to the “Wall Street Sucks” campaign currently underway in lower Manhattan. Even if, like me, you probably disagree with 99 percent of what the “99%” demonstrators have to say, it’s nice to hear someone bitching out loud about Wall Street. For true-blue liberals, of course, the continuing mystery…
Ronald Kessler, totally bending over forwards to be fair
In his book, The Bureau, The Secret History of the FBI, which is not terribly secret, Ronald Kessler tussles with the vexing issue of whether FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and FBI Associate Director Clyde Tolson were, you know, doing it. Tolson, “ruggedly handsome,” according to Ron, joined the FBI in 1928 and was assigned…
Ronald Kessler, totally bending over forwards to be fair
In his book, The Bureau, The Secret History of the FBI, which is not terribly secret, Ronald Kessler tussles with the vexing issue of whether FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and FBI Associate Director Clyde Tolson were, you know, doing it. Tolson, “ruggedly handsome,” according to Ron, joined the FBI in 1928 and was assigned…
What went wrong? Possible causes
Well, now that all the fuss over Confidence Men, Ron Suskind’s “did not/did too” exposé of the furious infighting for influence among President Obama’s economic policy advisors has died down, we can review the matter without having to decide whether Larry Summers is a complete asshole 24/7 or if he occasionally has some downtime. So…
Slate Magazine: America’s Kill Zone
Slate Magazine, supposedly a liberal spot on the web, has gone all medieval on our asses. Will Saletan, whom I’ve praised in the past, gets more than hysterical on the subject of Anwar al-Awlaki. “Don’t cry for Awlaki,” Will tells us. “He got what he deserved. He left this country to wage war against it….
Marco Benevento—“Bye-ya”
Rick Perry loves Mexicans? No way, John! Rick Perry hates Mexicans!
Poor Rick Perry. The Republican masses have found him guilty of having a heart! He wants to help kids even if their parents aren’t Americans! Rick, are you sure you ain’t talking with a lisp? Cause you sound like a damn homo to me. Well, to prove that his heart is true—and cold as ice—Rick…
Totally not the New Yorker
This week’s cartoon is submitted by Ben, that bike-ridin’ fool from Harrisburg, PA. Ben “explains” that this is a surrealistic cartoon. Well, being literary tends to make one literal, so I assumed that that object in the foreground is a foot, belonging to someone who I’ll also assume is a guy and the dog’s owner….
A racial slur corrected
A couple of days ago I chastised Wall Street for, among other things, giving President Obama a hard time because he “hasn’t been publicly thanking them 5 times a day for the privilege of kissing their fat white asses 10 times a day.” Well, I now stand corrected. Robert Johnson, founder of BET, has furiously…
Murder most foul: Obama hath murdered Anwar al-Awlaki and America’s conscience
The more I read about America’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki, the more depressed I get. Obama appears to be very proud of his murder—a murder of his very own, so to speak, since it was the Obama Administration that added Anwar to Uncle Sam’s hit list. Also killed were Samir Khan, a…