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Waiter Rant
If you need a reminder not to mess around with the people bringing you food, Waiter Rant provides many.
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Letters To America
The Guardian is asking its readers to write directly to U.S. voters asking them to vote against Bush. Letter writers include Richard Dawkins and John Le Carre, whose most recent novel, Absolute Friends, is basically a howl of fury about … Continue reading
A Note From the Non-Reality-Based Community
You think [Dubya is] an idiot, don’t you … all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don’t care. You … Continue reading
Dumb and Dumber?
Quote of the day, from Tom Friedman’s column in the Times today: In China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America, Britney Spears is Britney Spears. In the column, he endorses Bill Cosby for President on condition that he talk … Continue reading
“Standing waiting for a man to show…”
John Cale played the Limelight tonight (or the Avalon as it’s known now) with a four-piece rock band. The songs ranged from slow and gentle (including about 1/3 of his new album, Hobo Sapiens) to shrieking noise-rock, concluding with Cale … Continue reading
Is the Tape Rolling, Bob?
Bob Dylan sat for first radio interview in years with National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep. (I continue to shake my head at NPR’s firing Bob Edwards; imagine a conversation between Edwards and Dylan!) The most interesting part of the interview … Continue reading
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Protected: WSJ Reporter in Iraq: “A Raging Barbaric Guerilla War”
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Bush’s Hometown Paper Endorses Kerry
The Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly based in Crawford, Texas, has endorsed John Kerry for president in a scathing editorial, concluding, “The Iconoclast urges Texans not to rate the candidate by his hometown or even his political party, but instead … Continue reading
The “Real” America?
This morning pointed me to a Daily News story in which Mayor Bloomberg described my birthplace, Staten Island, as “more real America, in many senses, than any other part of this city.” Staten Island was a haven for Tories during … Continue reading