Israeli zealots sabotaging Israel
Barry has just blogged a great piece on the disaster in Israel and Palestine. One of today's Ha'aretz essays, titled "Before Jewish fascism takes over", discusses interesting similarities between...
Chirpy
will we vote for more of the same?
Bad news for "the business of America": Business is bad, and America finally knows it. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Worries about jobs and a possible U.S. attack on Iraq pummeled consumer confidence to ...
follow-up on G.M.'s fundamentalism
Now for a completely different read [NYTimes letter] on the item I posted recently. CHEVY GETS THE FAITH To the Editor: Re "G.M. Gets Criticism for Backing Tour of Christian Music Performers" (...
vote green this time
Don't let them keep getting away with it. [The Democrat-Republican party oligarchy, that is.] And we won't even be helping Pataki when we do it! Barry says it all on Bloggy: I see no reason to...
When less is sometimes almost enough
I love The Onion, so I hope they will excuse me when I say that sometimes it's enough just to read through the cheeky headlines. Well, at least when you're in a big hurry. A small sample from the...
more on the numbers game in Washington
The Washington Post redeemed itself this time. The later edition of their article on the D.C. anti-war demonstration is a pretty fair report. No, it's a damn good one! Luigi Procopio, 45, a soc...
what's the message here?
It's a salon Premium article, so the regular Salon site includes only a precis, but it's all that's really needed to begin to put the story into perspective.] The media is fixating on John Allen ...
Paul Wellstone
A poet salutes his friend. Paul Wellstone was an unlikely politician in a place like Minnesota — land of walleyes, cornfields and phlegmatic Scandinavians. He was an urban Jew, son of immigrants...
Bush doctrine
Perhaps equally casual about distinguishing between those who "are either with us or against us," Bush's "new friend" has "weapons of mass destruction," and he doesn't seem to hestitate in using th...
U.S. now pariah more than paragon
Clinton and his administration were no great shakes when it came to their domestic policy programs or their real successes, but Bush and his own people make their predecessors look like progressive...