The first round of the elections in France have produced the two candidates for the runoff: Sarkozy and Royal. It turns out after all that most people were not lying to the polls because they were ashamed to say they … Continue reading →
The first round of French elections are coming this Sunday, followed by another (and deciding) one two weeks later. The field is unusual for France. As Jane Kramer points out in the New Yorker, all three leading candidates are relative … Continue reading →
Along with Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom, I’m a guest on this week’s Blog Week in Review. So, if you haven’t had enough of my voice lately on the Sanity Squad, you can listen to more here.
Continue reading →Another scintillating, fascinating, illuminating Sanity Squad podcast is up at Pajamas Media. Listen to Siggy, Dr. Sanity, Shrink, and me discuss the meaning and repercussions of Pelosi’s visit to Syria. Second topic: does it matter what we name the so-called … Continue reading →
Some of you have reported finding that every now and then one of your comments isn’t posting, even though there’s no apparent reason for it. I believe this is due to some rather restrictive settings on my spam filter at … Continue reading →
Judith Weiss of Kesher Talk has a theory: Nancy Pelosi is a Karl Rove mole. Why not? If she’d been invented by the opposition, she couldn’t be doing more to hurt her party. And, as an aside, I’m getting very … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, I suppose, that the British hostages were given the right by the Ministry of Defense to sell their stories to the tabloids. Society has been heading in that direction for a long time. The … Continue reading →
Happy Easter! Hope it’s as beautiful where you are as it has been where I am.
Continue reading →I was in San Francisco for a week, and never before have I seen such an uninterrupted stretch of beautiful weather in a city known for fog and cold even in summer. It’s spring, and the blooming flowers were out—some … Continue reading →
In my post yesterday I talked about the propaganda value the hostages had for Iran: As I’ve written before, [the propaganda of the event] is a winning situation for the Iranians, both for internal consumption and external. They are made … Continue reading →
Well, Kenneth Timmerman seems to think that the stick for the Iranians was the USS Nimitz “steaming” towards the Persian Gulf. “Steaming” is a bit of an anachronism, but you get the idea. Timmerman’s sources for inside info about the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ve got an exceptionally busy day today, and so this will be briefer than usual, despite the importance of the news.] The British hostages have been freed (or are in the process of being freed) by Iran. This is … Continue reading →