Click here to listen to tonight’s Sanity Squad: Tonight, Neo, Siggy, Shrink and Dr. Sanity shine the psychological spotlight on the Obama-Wright connection; and analyze the study of Al Qaeda suicide bombers that was recently released by the US military. … Continue reading →
I’ve found the key to Obama’s pastor and his fiery sermons: blame it all on his first name. The prophet Jeremiah was the inspiration for the expression “Jeremiad”, a “prolonged lamentation or complaint; also : a cautionary or angry harangue.” … Continue reading →
No, there’s not really any relation between Mamet, change, and Eliot Spitzer. Except that I was planning to write a post today on playwright David Mamet’s Village Voice essay “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.’” It seemed tailor-made … Continue reading →
Michael Totten’s latest. Worth reading, as always.
Continue reading →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 →
…than to write non-stories about things that aren’t going to happen? Apparently not.
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 →
…when the San Francisco Chronicle gives it a tongue-lashing for publishing gossip. Ouch. The Chronicle adds: Regrettably, the Times left itself and our profession open to such allegations of bias by publishing soft-focus evidence of what would be an outrageous … Continue reading →
It’s a little late for Valentine’s Day, but The New Yorker has published this love letter to McCain by Ryan Lizza. Okay, maybe it’s not exactly a love letter; there’s a bit of criticism in there as well. But not … Continue reading →
You all know what day it is. Now get cracking and get something. As for me, it’s a sad sad thing that I can only accept virtual chocolate. And here’s some for all of you:
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