Moment of silence for the late, great Marlon Brando. A Streetcar Named Desire On the Waterfront The Young Lions Julius Caesar The Godfather Last Tango in Paris Apocalypse Now The Freshman The Score See Matt Duss, as well.
Author: Robert Farley
Krugman is God. No, seriously. While others on the moderate left inch away from Moore, a bit ashamed to be found on the same side, Krugman recognizes the flaws and embraces him anyway. Krugman unders
Dick Cheney visits Yankee Stadium. . . And the Yankees come down with blood parasites. Coincidence?
From Tacitus on Ralph Nader: Apropos of the efforts of some Republicans to secure a ballot slot for Ralph Nader, let me say that it’s a moderately understandable tactical move and a terrible strategic one. Obviously a Nader presence is going to siphon off lefty votes that would otherwise have gone to Democrats (his bizarre protestations […]
Via Atrios and Crooked Timber, looks as if Focus on the Family has e-mailed Michael Moore’s home address to its members. My first reaction, so what, this is the kind of stunt that Moore pulls
Nick Confessore links to a nice article from the Columbia Journalism Review on the Iraqi National Congress and Western journalists. I’m no journalist, so I don’t have a firm grip on the
Good post at Crooked Timber about Turkish prospects in the EU. Here’s Chirac letting GW have it for meddling in European affairs by arguing that Turkey should be a member. And here’s Digby being, I think, a bit unfair. There are a few reasons why some EU member states don’t want let Turkey in. Turkish human rights policy […]
Via Atrios, apparently Dale Earnhardt Jr. told his pit crew to go and see F-911. Normally this wouldn’t be news, but the right is in full meltdown mode. A few comments from Free Republic: Well
Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday afternoon. Lots of people outside the Neptune selling anti-Bush paraphenalia, a few gathering signatures. One guy wandering around with a display trying to convince Dems
Interesting discussion over at Crooked Timber regarding this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education (thank you, Cathy, for the subscription, although I haven’t actually had the opportunity to read any of them). Apparently, Henry Kissinger has been putting the screws to the editors of Foreign Affairs because they’ve been running a debate on whether or not […]
I don’t think most people understand just how colossally the Bush administration has fucked up the North Korea situation. The media story suggests that is has been an intractable problem and tha
This is pretty cool, from Rolling Stone via Political Animal: Joe Biden: I was in the Oval Office the other day, and the president asked me what I would do about resignations. I said, “Look, M