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“The Pro-Torture Nine”
That’s what Sullivan has dubbed the following senators for voting against John McCain’s anti-torture amendments: Allard (R-CO)Bond (R-MO)Coburn (R-OK)Cochran (R-MS)Cornyn (R-TX)Inhofe (R-OK)Roberts (R-KS)Sessions (R-AL)Stevens (R-AK) The good news: McCain’s amendments passed in a crushing 90-9 vote. That means it’s veto-proof, and Bush has vowed to veto. Bear in mind, Bush rarely uses his veto, but he’ll do it to thwart
Rosh Hashana 5766…
…brings no pause at all… frantically working while listening to the reissue of Gary Thomas’s Overkill (JMT 1995), which I’d always thought was a jazz/hip-hop crossover of some sort, but no — it’s pure hip-hop and pretty hardcore for a jazz tenor player. See how easily I get distracted from Judaism… but in the NY Times Book Review there was
Voice of conscience
Below is the letter Captain Ian Fishback sent to Senator John McCain. Fishback has come forward with serious allegations of prisoner abuse and torture, and he deserves our praise. Send a message of moral support to supportfishback@aol.com and Andrew Sullivan will see that it reaches the Captain. Dear Senator McCain:I am a graduate of West Point currently serving as a
Missed this…
Thank you to Bill Weinberg at World War 4 Report for picking up and supporting me on this Galloway business. The responses in the comments section are instructive. For those taking notes, here’s lesson numero uno in Extremism 101: If you’re a raving anti-Semite, just make the politically correct noises about Palestine and you’ll be given a free pass by
Levitt on Bennett
Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt defends Bill Bennett up to a point but concludes: There is one thing I would take Bennett to task for: first saying that he doesn’t believe our abortion-crime hypothesis but then revealing that he does believe it with his comments about black babies. You can’t have it both ways. Andrew Sullivan adds: [B]y reflexively relating race
Mahavishnu, Metheny and me
Never got around to posting these. (w. McLaughlin Oct. ’03; w. Metheny Dec. ’04)
Right-wing Freudian slip watch
From today’s NY Times: ”But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,” said [William] Bennett, author of ”The Book of Virtues.” Read it again. He “knows that it’s true.” Could
Links to the latest
Here‘s a letter of mine in this week’s Village Voice (scroll down). And here‘s my ecstatic review of Keith Jarrett’s solo concert at Carnegie Hall on 9/26.