The aaaeulc has gained a craven combination of mindless BananaRepublicans and feckless BananaDemocrats. The dog days of summer are upon us, too. See ya later. Aug. 10: Oh, and before I go … here’s a postscript: mi amigo with reference to the “brown-skinned shadows” in Iraq, “whose violent demise need not touch the American realm.” […]

U.S. military can’t find 190,000 weapons given willy-nilly to Iraqi forces when security training was run by Gen. David Petraeus. Which raises fears, as The Washington Post delicately puts it, that the military genius who is now the top U.S. commander in Iraq has armed the insurgents fighting U.S. troops. Makes you wonder what else […]

WSJ editorial assures us, “No sane businessman pays a premium of 67% over the market price for an asset he intends to ruin.” Well, nobody has said he intends to ruin it. To use a favorite word of the WSJ editorial board, that’s a canard. Rupe simply intends to run the Journal the way he […]

When you’re a mathematician who analyses weapons systems as an independent consultant to the U.S. government, you pay attention to military appropriations (not least because you like to get paid). So it was eyebrow-raising to receive a message from just such a weapons analyst telling me how much he’d learned from Adam Cohen’s recent editorial, […]

“Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities,” was listed on the rightwing cultural site

Paul Krugman zapped a fellow New York Times columnist this morning with a

Who says we don’t blog about high kulcha? Here’s something to chew on. “One of the more profound statements on German opera,” a friend writes. Online Videos by Veoh.com EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Never thought I could listen to Bruce Fein without throwing a brick at him. But, man! The nerdie rightwing legal beagle is worth hearing on why the Attack Dog must be impeached. Yes, must. He wrote the first article of impeachment against Clinton.) Because in this instance, contrary to his specious puritanical reaction to a […]

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Steve Skrovan writes: Just read your We were in the documentary competition at Sundance in ’06, made the Oscar shortlist this year, had a theatrical release this past spring and had a anunreasonableman.com.  There you will find links to many of our reviews. We’d be curious to know what you think. Here’s what I think. […]

Whenever Ralph Nader comes on the tube, which isn’t often enough, it’s must-see TV. He’s in a class by himself. I don’t know of any politician, civic leader or social firebrand who can match him for his unique combination of level-headed insight, deep intelligence, real accomplishment and passionate straight talk. must-see interview that aired this […]

Whatever it’s called — an prison break — it comes as the latest illustration of the aaaeulc‘s independence from democratic principles. The Attack Dog have sprung their Independence Day fireworks. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

It lacks the humor of the full-page ad in this morning’s NY Times shows more fervor. Talk about powerful! BnnRpbi

launch an offensive near Baghdad, it may be unwise to apply a description of the morale of the French troops at Dien Bien Phu to the mood of the American troops in Iraq. But even given the enormous differences between the Indochina war and the one in Iraq — in geography, battle conditions, politics, culture, […]

Is the aaaeulc on its way out? I don’t mean just the elected officials like the Attack Dog in their lame-duck days. I mean their modus operandi or, if you like, their institutional style and substance. Not to stretch the point, but “there is no crueller tyranny than the one exercised in the shadow of […]

His latest moniker on the front page of The New York Times print edition did not make the paper’s Web site, except Did the news editors of The Times believe the implied satirical content needed to be eliminated for the Web? I didn’t ask. Maybe the newly installed public editor will. But at least the […]