I had my reservations about sharing this story. But a partner in the firm assured me that the story was just too good to pass up. Names and addresses and other identifying information have, of course, been altered. My client… Continue Reading
You sometimes wonder whether talking heads say offensive things intentionally or whether gaffes pop out of them more or less at random. For instance, I could be persuaded that Bill O’Reilly suggesting that a little boy saw an upside to… Continue Reading
If you enjoy air travel, you’ll see the genius in this Indian entrepreneur’s new business. For those of us who would prefer a night in a Turkish prison to contemporary air travel, it is beyond perversity.
Margaret George wrote a novel based on the legends of the Trojan War, from the first-person perspective of Helen, last year. I just finished it. It was an interesting and ambitious take on a subject that was probably quite challenging… Continue Reading
What if we were able to send the bright men and women at MoveOn.org back in time to 1942? I bet we’d have seen an ad a lot like this in the New York Times. E-e-e-e-ediots!
Hysterical neolib calls for a military coup. As much as the author denies it, what he advocates would be a military overthrow of the civilian government. As bad an idea as you might think the Iraq war was, or still… Continue Reading
For the past several days, there have been a lot of discussions about The New Republic publishing descriptions of atrocities and other acts of insane cruelty by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, published under the pseudonyms “My Diarist” and “Scott Thomas.” … Continue Reading
…not to ever get a tattoo.
Not after reading this. You don’t do that sort of thing to a dog. Period.