By • Dec 20,2008

Israel rehashes bad times, Iran wins

The Israelis are launching their third straight day of air strikes into Gaza, dealing themselves what will ultimately be their second self-imposed military defeat in three years. At times like...

By • Dec 19,2008

Naomi Klein: bourgeois vixen?

I realize I’m supposed to find Naomi Klein irritating, and am probably obliged to call attention to her economic illiteracy, but what struck me when reading this recent New Yorker...

By • Dec 19,2008

Damn you, Mick Foley

How am I supposed to top this? I don’t come to wrestling rings and hit people with 2x4s, do I? I don’t jump onto tables with thumbtacks thrown all over...

By • Dec 19,2008

Heroine

I see my guardian angel. She is sitting on the curb sucking bad coffee out of a hole in the lid of a paper cup. I am carrying groceries out...

By • Dec 18,2008

Drum Porn

JVL embeds a video of Joe Morello that is pretty good, if a little old school for my taste, over at his joint. To which I respond: Morello ain’t got...