Month: July 2006

Having caught Bruce Springsteen performing “We Sall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” last night on PBS from St. Luke’s Church in London, this thought hit me: The entire album is so full of life but...

The Friday Afternoon Cafe Is Now Open! What are you drinking this weekend? Got your random 10s ready for happy hour later? Kindly recommend this cafe and unrecommend the previous one.

JTA reports on Lieberman’s Jewish problem. Jewish fund-raisers canvassed by JTA said they favored Lieberman — even those who profoundly disagree with him on Iraq. But an internal Democratic poll of Connecticut Jews...

Be afraid, be very afraid. Terrorists, brilliant terrorists, wanted to flood the financial district of Manhattan by blowing up the Holland Tunnel. Not kidding. You can read the whole story about how we got the Lebanese...

[Throws down blogpost printouts which he has been reading. Excitedly combs his steel wool-like hair with his fingers; pounds the table with his fists; lets off brisk volleys of unsanctified language at brief intervals,...