Month: January 2006
According to the Voice review of a new anthology of New Orleans music, "hovering over the close, scythe at the ready, is Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927," the flood tale annotator.
One has to think that Abramoff has to have promised some serious violations of omerta to get the deal he did. ReddHedd is optimistic:What this means is that Jackie Boy.
Roy has some interesting thoughts about Spielberg and Munich. I've never hated Spielberg the way in which many people of similar tastes (I believe we're called "pretentious wankers") do. I.
Glenn Greenwald does most of the work in destroying Assrocket's ludicrously tendentious reading of Youngstown, particularly in his utter failure to explain why Truman's actions were "domestic" and Bush's are.
Shakes is right, and it should be noted that Yglesias called this last year, to much skepticism here and elsewhere. Ashcroft, in fact, was a far better AG than Alberto.
Shorter National Review: MLK would have been an awful rabble-rouser, except that we wasn't a good enough public speaker to actually rouse the rabble. He should have taken some courses.