Slate has a disgusting article by two Republican lawyer goons, Lee Casey and David Rivkin Jr., who served under Ronnie and George I, denouncing those damn judges who take seriously Justice Anthony Kennedy’s “oft-quoted statement that to free the president and Congress from judicial supervision would amount to a holding that ‘the political branches have…
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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDITING NEW YORKER ARTICLES
The average contributor to this magazine is semi-literate; that is, he is ornate to no purpose, full of senseless and elegant variations, and can be relied on to use three sentences where a word would do. It is impossible to lay down any and complete formula for bringing order out of this underbrush, but there…
The Customer Is Always Wrong
by Wolcott Gibbs Just as the advance agent for a circus is not likely to be disturbed by even the largest elephant, so his metropolitan equivalent, the Broadway press agent, can look on the most succulent actor and still remain composed. This is a natural condition, since both actors and elephants, observed for any length…
Richard Posner fools me again
I guess that should be Richard A. Posner, because that’s how Dick likes to bill himself on his book jackets. If you read this blog assiduously, you’re probably aware that no one gets my goat quite so often as the learned judge. I never liked his snooty, know-it-all attitude, but it was his little book,…
Jack Goldsmith, still trembling before the truth
I’ve cast a cold eye on Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under W, before and I’m going to do it again. In the current Vanity Fair article on that debacle known as the Bush Presidency, Jack has this to say about how George and Dick Cheney seemed, well,…
Ruth Marcus: just too damn much mercury in her sushi
Or else she’s just too damn stupid. Just weeks after demanding that Caroline Kennedy be appointed to the U.S. Senate because it would a fairy tale come true, she’s saying that Ronald Reagan was right to pardon Mark Felt for conducting illegal bag jobs on Bill Ayers and his Weatherman pals and that, by extension,…
P.G. on the Web
Josh Frost has a terrific cartoon version of the first half of an early Bertie & Jeeves story here. For more Frost, check out the Adventures of Nathaniel Bright, here. If you want to know more about P.G. Wodehouse, the creator of B&J, go here. Like many writers, I’m a P.G. Wodehouse addict, though a…
Moral Obtusities in Collision
That smacking sound you may have heard this morning was the thick head of John R. “Funny Moustache” Bolton crashing into the combined thick heads of Henry “Moral Bankruptcy” Kissinger and George “I thought he knew better” Shultz. A couple of weeks back Henry and George combined for a stunning exercise in moral evasion in…
The Ample Ass-Covering of Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is back from Afghanistan, and she has a tale to tell. According to Anne, the job is tough but doable. “Though Americans like to talk about “winning” and “losing” the war in Afghanistan, on the ground it’s clear that those categories aren’t relevant. Of course we can “win”: The real question is whether…
Early Jeanne, Early Louis, Early Miles
Ever see the flick about the young Parisian car thief who steals an American convertible, find a gun in the glove compartment, kills a guy, and goes down for it? How about the one about a young couple who get involved in murder over a stolen car and fantasize about dying together with their pictures…