Category: Miscellany

  • Make Saddam an offer he can't refuse

    The Bush Crime Family meme I’ve seen bandied about on the Well and elsewhere has spawned a comic at the Village Voice, The Bushopranos. Where are those humorless lefties when you need them? This cartoon fights the Bush restoration/rematch narrative that put their team within striking distance of the prize with a psychoanalytical reprise of…

  • This morning I woke up in a curfew…

    First-hand reports from Miguel Octavio of The Devil’s Excrement indicate that Hugo Chavez has jailed opposition leaders in Venezuala: Woke up in a Dictatorship todayToday I woke up in a Dictatorship. Up to now Hugo Chavez and his hoodlums had been using the law to “hide” the repressive and intolerant nature of this Government. Last…

  • Once more, from the top

    Sing along with the vocal stylings of the spongmonkeys as they regale you with their acoustic guitar rave-up We Like the Moon.

  • Get your war on early and often

    My favorite pundit for these extreme times has gotten Get Your War On No. 19 out:

  • Brush with Havel

    Let’s Hear Your Havel Anecdotes! Everybody’s got one. Mine was already written once, by Greg McIlvaine. To loosen up your memory box, here’s a fine David Remnick essay in the New Yorker, a Paul Wilson National Post account of Havel’s last days, and some Guardian reminiscences from Timothy Garton Ash. –Matt Welch Brush with Havel…

  • Jack Straw from Wichita at the Mars Hotel (U.K.)

    Dave Winer says I’ve always wondered if Mr Straw knows that his name is the title of a Grateful Dead song. This is why weblogs are so revolutionary. Just kidding.” [Scripting News] I think he does. His boss, Tony Blair, was the frontman for a Dead cover band called Ugly Rumours when he was at…