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Sanity Squad at 8PM Eastern Time
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 →
Pastor Wright: blame it on his first name
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 →
Mamet, change, and Eliot Spitzer
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 →
In the villages of Al Anbar
Michael Totten’s latest. Worth reading, as always.
Continue reading →“60 Minutes”—of gossip
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 →
Sanity Squad tonight at 8
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 →
Doesn’t the Times have better things to do…
…than to write non-stories about things that aren’t going to happen? Apparently not.
Continue reading →Point and counterpoint on McCain and the lobbyists
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 →
Sanity Squad podcast: Kosovo independence (and laryngitis)
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 →
You know the Times has egg on its face…
…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 →
The “jerks” at the New Yorker like McCain
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 →