David Adler
Remembering
It is September 11 and the McCain campaign has us all ranting about lipstick on a pig. Think about that. Last year, to mark this anniversary, I posted a passage from Amitav Ghosh’s 1988 novel The Shadow Lines. I’d like to do so again. — The Shadow Lines is a semifictional account of anti-Muslim communal violence in Calcutta in 1964.
Lipstick traces
Larry King has Arianna Huffington, lying sack of shit Ari Fleischer and complete moron Chuck Norris on his show, and he’s milking lipstick-gate for all it’s worth. Get this: Fleischer conceded that Obama was not referring to Palin with the lipstick remark, but since the audience laughed, clearly they must have taken it that way. The audience laughed because it was
Hypocrites, damned hypocrites
Via Marc Cooper — this is a book by John McCain’s former press secretary. No-spin era. Yep.
Savaging Palin
Dan Savage isn’t just a sex advice columnist, he’s one of America’s sharpest minds on sexual politics. His take on Palin? Away he goes: […] As the adoptive parent of a child born to a pair of unwed teenagers, I’m certainly not in favor of abortion in all circumstances. But I believe that it’s a choice teenagers should be able
Jazz for Obama
October 1 at 92nd Street Y. Here for details!
McCain’s shamelessness
The Republican crybaby brigade is claiming Barack Obama meant the phrase “lipstick on a pig” as an attack on Sarah Palin, when he clearly didn’t. Here’s video of McCain using the same exact phrase in May.
Cohen on Palin
There’s been much to admire in Nick Cohen’s savaging of the George Galloway-John Pilger wing of the left in Britain. But to me, the point of all this, and the reason I launched this blog almost exactly three years ago, was to shore up liberalism and social-democratic politics against attacks from the know-nothing left and the know-nothing right. Cohen has
Surge PS
Steve Coll of The New Yorker describes the situation in post-surge Iraq as “patchwork calm,” and here’s one feature of said calm: “Violent deaths of Iraqi civilians, while difficult to measure, have also dropped steeply, although the figure remains high: about five hundred per month, at a conservative estimate.” Five hundred violent deaths per month, and this is what the