See my post on Russ Feingold’s move to censure Bush on The Nation’s group blog. Bring your comments with you.

Slobodan Milosevic’s death is freighted with more than just a tinge of schadenfreude. There’s also some unexpected humor.  Believe it or not there are those who continue to make out the Butcher of the Balkans as some sort of victim. The U.S. — it turns out– was the true source of evil in the decade-long [...]

Here we go again. President George W. Bush begins today yet another series of policy speeches on Iraq with the aim of boosting public support for the war. He did a previous, similar round a year or so ago. If I remember correctly, those were to be a series of four or five talks. But [...]

I highly recommend Matt Bai’s latest piece in The New York Times Magazine. In exploring the possible Democratic candidacy of Virginia’s Mark Warner as the “anti-Hillary,” Bai does an excellent job of showing just how tough it’s going to be for anyone to take on the Party’s entrenched establishment Warner, if he runs, would essentially [...]

I don’t want the weekend to pass without at least briefly commemorating the long-too-delayed passing of one Slobodan Milosevic.  Good-bye and good riddance. Slobo is no longer “undaunted.” He’s now just plain dead. Ramsey Clark will now have more time to devote to defending Saddam Hussein.

I’ve been struggling on and off, all day, to write something appropriate about the barbaric torture and murder of pacifist Tom Fox in Iraq. I can find no words.

How quickly America is, apparently, going to hell. Not more than a month or so ago we were a “plantation.”  Now, it seems, we’re on the verge of becoming a “police state.” I could use this bandwidth now to muse over the Dubai Doo Doo. Or over the prolongation of the Patriot Act. Or a [...]

That’s quite a little rumble that the Dubai deal has set off inside the Republican Party. I suspect that a lot of pressure is now being brought upon the Emirs to fold and pull out before Bush is handed the humiliating defeat of a veto-proof rejection coming from the Hill. In my new L.A. Weekly [...]

As some of you know, I’ve been spending a lot of time recently reporting on the border and overall immigration policy (I have pieces on this issue soon appearing in the The Atlantic, The Nation and on Truthdig.com). So I was particularly interested in the immigration report released yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The [...]

Thank God for the activists over at the Motion Picture Academy. Without their elevated consciousness, we otherwise racist dumb-fuck Angelenos would never have been slapped with the “reality check” that Crash provides. At least, so says Tom Hayden in a sophomoric rant that should make all fellow liberals and lefties grimace and hide under the [...]

When I looked in on David Horowitz’ regular gathering of movement conservatives last week there was a lot of loose talk about hoping the New York Times will get prosecuted. Y’know, for publishing the leaked info about the NSA surveillance program. I just shrugged all that off as cheap, partisan wanking. The same way I shrug [...]

“Crash” will not be remembered a year from now (I had already forgotten it). Stewart sucked. Best line of the evening (paraphrased): “For those of you keeping score at home: Martin Scorsese, zero. 3-6 Mafia, one.” — Jon Stewart

Nope. No invite over to the Kodak Theater for Sunday’s Oscars. I’ll be home like everyone else watching on the tube. Or trying to watch, as this year’s nominees do little to excite me. I’m not rooting for any film or any actor in particular. My only interest is to root against the film Crash [...]

Just in time for the Oscars, this news. All of Hollywood (and moi) able to step back from the brink.

I like this manifesto. And I admire the courage of those who have signed it, especially Salman Rushdie who has everything to lose. Readers of this blog know I’m pretty phobic about religion in general. And like the signers of the linked letter, I reject the arguments about “cultural relativism.”  Compare the reaction of the [...]

As the immigration debate heats up, I’ve added this one-stop link to my blogroll. It’s edited by my fabulolus friend, Dan Kowalski.

Come back, Brownie, all is forgiven. There are some intriguing re-thinking out there about who really screwed up the Katrina response. The video releases of the past few days suggest we might have been too harsh on poor Michael Brown. What we see in the video is that Brown is the guy who actually has [...]

Oh, I can’t tell you how much I love this one. Bill Clinton advising the monarchs of Dubai on how to sell the ports deal. I’d expect no less from Slick Willie. Just happy to see one more confirmation of what absolute, rank opportunists he and the Missus are. It all reminds me of how [...]