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,…
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Broderfreude
The classic earmark, so to speak, of the classic Washington weenie is the pleasure one gets in seeing David Broder fall on his self-important ass. It’s an odd sort of pleasure, because Broder himself never feels the impact. For an old Washington hand like Dave, error isn’t a cause for embarrassment. Rather, it’s an opportunity…
Words stolen from Alan Vanneman’s brain, when he was helpless and asleep
“I Often Dream of Trains may be the most Syd Barrett-influenced album of Robyn Hitchcock’s career ….” David Malitz, Wash Post, Nov. 20, 2008. Oh, and how about that mammoth shit?
Anne Hits a Winner, Cohen Goes For the Jugular
I’ve been fairly hard on Anne Applebaum over the past few years, finding her if not actually neo-con then certainly neo-con-ish, tending to treat all foreign policy issues as a matter of toughness and will. “If we just stand up to the Russians/Taliban/Iranians/etc. then we’ll win!” The question of whether it’s worth traveling half-way around…
Further thoughts on the current discontents
If we can take Barack Obama at his word—and I fear we have to—we are in all likelihood entering a new era of regulation. Whatever Wall Street Pacification Package emerges from the current confusion, it certainly won’t turn things around before election day, which is looking more and more like a blowout win for the…
Does that mean we lied? Part II
The way David Ignatius tells it, Secretary of Defense Bob Gates will do anything to express his sorrow for the deaths of innocent Afghan civilians killed by U.S. troops. He’ll even stand in the hot sun, wearing a pinstriped suit! According to Ignatius, Gates also announced that “United States will adopt a new approach of…
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…
The snark that would not die
Not if I can help it, anyway. I recently posted a comment at the New Republic, regarding an article that Martha Nussbaum had written on Roger Williams, a commented that suggested, among other things, that I hoped I would live long enough to see Martha, Richard Posner, and Justice Scalia fighting it out with socks…
Richard Cohen has no penis
It’s official. In his latest column, Richard Cohen, who made his bones at the Wash Post by helping take down Spiro Agnew, treats the fad for tattoos among the young as a sign of the general fuckedupedness of modern America, addresses young women as “sweeties” and makes smart remarks about their “tummies,” bemoans the fact…
David Ignatius, in search of a lead, yet fleeing the truth
“Listening to members of Congress, you might think the biggest problem at the Central Intelligence Agency is that one of its officers destroyed videotapes that showed waterboarding of suspected al-Qaeda operatives.” Really? Which ones have been saying such wickedness? And why isn’t destroying evidence of torture, you know, just a bit of a problem? Yes,…