Was it really nine years ago? What have I been doing with my life? Bob Herbert dug up an old 60 Minutes transcript (Times Select), and it ended Don Imus’s television career. In a “60 Minutes” interview with Don Imus...
Read MoreThis is an Unhosted Cafe. Sit down, have some coffee, and try not to get newspaper ink on your clothes. Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
Read More. Explosion in restaurant, roof of parliament collapsed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An explosion rocked a restaurant inside the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad while lawmakers were having lunch, wounding dozens of people, a...
Read MoreKurt Vonnegut is gone. My epitaph for him follows. As will we all, eventually. (So it goes…)Mistah Kurt wrote: “The firebombing of Dresden was a work of art.” It was, he added, “a tower of smoke and flame...
Read MoreIt’s four and the morning and a coughing spell woke me up. I clicked on Atrios only to learn this: Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and...
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