By • Feb 01,2010

In praise of Art Linson

In preparation for a freelance piece I’m rereading What Just Happened, Art Linson’s book on what, exactly, it means to be a “producer.” You know, that credit that you sometimes...

By • Feb 01,2010

Game changed or rules broken?

Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, stole the spotlight by informing us that Harry Reid thought of Barack Obama as a “light-skinned”, um, “Negro”. That quote was quite...

By • Feb 01,2010

Poor Mr. Qaddafi

Dan Drezner notes that Libya’s weirdo-in-chief is not happy about being deposed as head of the African Union. I just have to ask, what kind of continent chooses Muammar Qaddafi...

By • Jan 31,2010

Tea (Parties) and Sympathy

In the current issue of the New Yorker, my old classmate Ben McGrath goes inside the Tea Party movement. Ben is determined not to write-off the Tea Partiers as right-wing...

By • Jan 31,2010

John McCain is a Commie terrorist!

Frank Rich makes a compelling case: John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition. On Wednesday night he could be seen sneering when Obama pointed out that most of the debt vilified...

By • Jan 31,2010

NY Times vs. liberal censorship

Good for them: The 30-second [Super Bowl] spot, financed by the conservative religious group Focus on the Family, is said to recount the pregnancy of Pam Tebow, mother of the...