A friend writes that a re-reading of George Orwell's "1984" suggests that the administration has been using it as a road map, but it was an old [copyright 1961] afterword written by Erich Fromm whi...

Bloggy has some good photos of the demonstrations responding to the first day of the Iraq massacre. including a couple of Barry's own New York scenes and others in links from around the world.

This is not a political statement. This is a hedge, this is a feelgood thing, this is a fashion statement, nothing more. Thursday in the "Business Day" section of the NYTimes we learned that "Hol...

Don't go! It's a trap. A religious cult has abducted John Adams and forced him to create a monstrosity, called "El Niño," which opened in New York tonight at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Unfor...

We have a new blacklist. Right now it's only about a party, but sometimes party matters. Certain film people known to be opposed to the massacre in Iraq have been forbidden any opportunity to air...

I'm an atheist, so I cannot say, "God damn this country," even if I wanted to, but I can certainly say that we have damned ourselves today, perhaps irredeemably. Only hours ago we started to rain ...

but how do we explain the success of the engineers of our own age of repression? Bloggy argues they're even beyond satire. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has banned the broadcast media from...

Mindful of the sad course of events in Afghanistan, lefties have been appropriately sceptical about the administration's commitment to a postwar Iraq, but I guess we can now see that they really do...

This site is everywhere these days, but for those who have missed it so far, it's time to cast your vote. Who would make a better president, Bush or a box of Tic-Tacs? You decide. Your voting ex...

I'm mad as hell! And it's not just because my country is about to blow up millions of people on the other side of the world who wish us no harm. I'm a bit upset that my country has been stolen, f...