John Hindraker makes a good case for thinking the great minds behind CBS’s “60 Minutes” might be suffering a tad from RDS (Rove Derangement Syndrome, Republican Derangement Syndrome, take your pick) for treating Jill Simpson as a credible source. The … Continue reading →
Listen live and you get to call in with questions/comments (the number is 646-716-9116). Or listen to the tape. But listen. Dr. Sanity, Shrink, Siggy, and I will be discussing the latest Israeli incursion into Gaza. And if we have … Continue reading →
I found this video through a link at Pajamas Media, where it was dubbed “the creepiest Obama tribute video ever.” If that’s hyperbole and there’s a creepier one, I hope I never see it. This one is bad enough. It … Continue reading →
Now that he seems poised to become the Democratic Presidential nominee, Obama is taking a bit of heat from McCain, his likely opponent, especially about Obama’s touchy-feely (that is, predominantly talky) foreign policy. It’s a different sort of heat than … Continue reading →
I don’t get HBO, but I watched the first few episodes of the new HBO series “In Treatment” while staying with friends for a few days. It features a psychologist and his sessions with patients, one for each weekday night, … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ve received a recent communication that indicates the court proceedings yesterday in Paris may not have gone as negatively as my initial impressions from the information on the subject I had read and/or listened to far. If so, I … Continue reading →
…than to write non-stories about things that aren’t going to happen? Apparently not.
Continue reading →Allison Kaplan Summer translates an Obama interview with the Israeli news source Ynet that is due to appear on Friday. Asked how he would deal with the threat of Iran and whether he would support military action if diplomacy fails, … Continue reading →
A.J. Dionne at the Washington Post is one of the few who thinks that, minus the sexual innuendos, the NY Times was onto a good story about McCain and the lobbyists. Paul Sheehan, in an exhaustive and definitive fisking of … Continue reading →
The Presidential campaign has so dominated the news cycle that other important events, such as Kosovo independence, have gotten short shrift. The Sanity Squad has attempted to remedy that in its latest podcast at Blog Talk Radio. So click and … Continue reading →
It isn’t often you get to watch a lie become entrenched truth. Or maybe it is often, if you pay enough attention. Once it’s repeated enough, and by the right people, it becomes the revealed truth, and there’s almost no … Continue reading →
Well, at least no one’s beheading them (hat tip: Pajamas Media): …57 young men…were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca. For those of you puzzled by my “Mikado” reference, the very handy You Tube … Continue reading →