"I don't know why they don't just surrender"
Sometimes there's no temptation to comment on a news story. NEAR NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Burned-out vehicles and incinerated bodies littered a plain in central Iraq on Sunday after U.S. forces ov...
Chirpy
THINGS ARE NOT GOING WELL, FOR ANYONE
So what are we supposed to look forward to now? It's hard to avoid asking the question. Of course I'm referring to how things are going to play out here in the U.S., in the Middle East and throug...
fascism
This is just too good to resist borrowing a bit from Bloggy's more extensive commentary: From Britannica Concise: fascism: Philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the sta...
we can't stop now
I walked through Manhattan today for four hours carrying a sign, "US OUT OF NY," meaning that for its own survival the city must immediately try to sever itself from a national government whose pol...
through the glass, but very darkly
Peter Freundlich thinks "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" should not be the models for American foreign policy. Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is a good ...
bully mows down neighbor kid in kid's yard
These are two borrowings from Bloggy, combined here as one post. Minutes before the [March 19] speech, an internal television monitor at the White House showed the President pumping his fist. "F...
but this war was to reduce the risk of terrorism here
Ellis Henican writes in Newsday today, Rand Beers, the top terror-fighting official at the National Security Council, stepped down this week, just as the first missiles were being readied for lau...
U.S. out of New York!
The U.S. is destroying New York City. What wasn't accomplished on September 11, 2001 [and some day we may learn to what extent it was not just Washington's incompetence but even its design which w...
even Mary is a guy thing
I haven't been able to just walk away from the distressing experience of last night's religious assault at BAM, John Adams' "El Niño." The story of the piece was in fact not that of the niño or ch...
will their trucks sport doves in diamonds and gold?
Yesterday in the Daily News "Rush & Molloy" included a small item reporting that Cadillac, which is the exclusive provider of cars for the Academy Awards this year, offering attendees the choic...