The New York Times has a long, all too-informative article on leading Catholic windbag and Princeton University professor Robert P. George who explains that he can’t be blamed for supporting the invasion of Iraq because Hillary voted for it. He goes on to say that he doesn’t like to talk about sex because the Roman…
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The New York Times begins a seven-part series on master Vermeer forger Han van Meegeren. Yeah. That Han van Meegeren.
Ross Douthat, Enters Dancing
I haven’t been kind to Ross Douthat in the past, referring to him with perhaps an excess of sarcasm as Ross Dumbfuck. Well, I won’t descend to that level today, but I will say that his debut column in the New York Times, “Cheney for President,” is not a winner. “Watching Dick Cheney defend the…
The Arch Sophistication of Alessandra Stanley
Poor Alessandra Stanley! The New York Times—apparently functioning in a serious hip on a budget mode these days—has assigned her the impossible task of writing amusing copy on the state of American sit-coms. After an obligatory nod to the one sit-com she actually wants to write about, the ever-cool, though rarely watched—certainly not by me—“30…
Alan Vanneman has a heart of gold, part II
Well, I do, and to prove it, I’ll link to someone I really don’t like, Mickey Kaus, who has some really smart things to say about the hideous terror attacks in Mombai. The massive death toll was in large part due to the utter incompetence of the Indian police. Quoting from an article in the…
So I guess we lied
You may recall my complaints here and here about the U.S military’s footdragging and evasions regarding the question of whether American air strikes on August 22 on an Afghan village killed “5-7” civilians, as the U.S. said, or 90, as the civilians themselves said. Well, now U.S. Air Force investigators have concluded that the civilian…
NYT gets it right, seriously
Today’s editorial in the New York Times highlights two of the most egregious sores on the American body politic—hatred of foreigners and a grotesquely swollen U.S. penal code. As part of its “We hate immigrants” campaign, the Bush Administration raided a slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa and arrested, not the plant operators for hiring illegal immigrants,…
American Women: Poor and Oppressed, or Smart and Rich?
It’s tough bein’ a sister, livin’ in the USA. As the New York Times tells it, “Across the country, women in their prime earning years, struggling with an unfriendly economy, are retreating from the work force, either permanently or for long stretches.” In an “above the fold” July 22 story, “Women Are Now Equal as…
Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List—I can’t stop watching! Oh, wait, yes, I can.
I was always a fan of Kathy Griffin, dating back to the days of the Suddenly Susan TV show. Susan got terrible reviews, but I was a devoted fan, sticking with the show even through the last, stumbling season, or at least the first half. I even watched the show in reruns for awhile, before…
Socio-political notes from all over: The Ivies go down, Haas keeps covering aass, and Ryan Grim covers, and covers up for, “The Squad”.
The Ivies took a pounding, and New York Representative Elise Stefanik received a publicity boost more valuable than gold, and it couldn’t have come to a less deserving person.1 The supposedly brilliant scholars heading Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and M.I.T. came across as scripted robots, not responding actively to Stefanik’s leading questions—that “intifada”, which…