Transcript: Q & A on details of Obama’s Afghanistan planBelow is the transcript of a briefing this morning by the chairman of Obama’s Afghanistan policy review, Bruce Riedel, as well as...
Cole Porter Writes the AIG Theme SongFor some reason, I was reminded by Jake DeSantis’s already-famous "Dear AIG, I Quit!" op-ed , and even more by some of the online...
George Galloway: an odd champion of free speechGeorge Galloway cancelled our interview because he didn’t like my question. This was during the 2005 British general...
Obama’s Afghanistan speechBelow is Obama’s speech this morning on Afghanistan. He announced 4,000 new troops on top of the additional 17,000 additional...
For the record: Obama won’t legalize (and tax) pot to fix the economyToday the president held an "on-line town hall." According to the White House, over the past two days more than 92,000 people...
More About the CBCOne of the budget-cutting devices the CBC has announced is that they’re cutting the episode orders of many of their shows : The...
Forget everything bad I said about robotsI never grasped that we are the flesh-based problem to which they are the solution
Shows Without MusicI just watched the season premiere of In Treatment (based, like the previous season’s episodes, on an episode of the Israeli show...
I Love Prescott PharmaceuticalsThis isn’t related to anything recent -- The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are in reruns this week -- but I once did a post on...