Category Archives: Politics
Audio of the NYRB’s Panel Discussion ‘The Consequences to Come’
So, that New York Review of Books panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival? You can now listen to a podcast of the whole shebang, or they have conveniently chopped it up for you to just play cuts from your favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn Book Festival, Joan Didion, New York Review of Books, podcasts
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Joan Didion Discourses at the Brooklyn Book Festival
There is, it seems, a certain type of woman that will always turn up at the chance to hear Joan Didion speak, and I was sandwiched in line between many of them at Sunday’s Brooklyn Book Festival. They are in … Continue reading
Republicans Party Balls to the Wall
Sweet puckering pie holes! The odd, clandestine rites of the Grand Old Party continue to amaze. In between chatting up underage pages online and toe-tapping in public toilets, it seems like some of those hoary perverts like to gather (sans … Continue reading
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Tagged balls, Fred Fielding, male bonding, nuts to you, Republicans
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Second Acts: Mark Foley
Remember disgraced, inappropriate IM-sending Republican Congressman from Florida Mark Foley? He’s back on the scene! And where else would a scandalized formerly closeted politician with a penchant for young boys and a stint in rehab under his belt go? Uh … Continue reading
Posted in Effin' Florida, Politics, The Gays
Tagged Hollywood, Mark Foley, second acts
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Soldier of Fortune 2.0?
Move over Soldier of Fortune, there’s a new mercenary magazine that needs room on the convenience store racks next to Field and Stream and that well-thumbed copy of Barely Legal. Serviam (Latin for “I will serve”) caters to a kinder, … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged a kinder gentler mercenary, magazines, our post-9/11 world, Serviam
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President Bush Shockingly (Jokingly?) Self-Aware
Buried at the end of the piece in the Times on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s genial little visit to the Bush Family compound in Kennebunkport came this stunning admission from the dissembler-in-chief: Mr. Bush, for his part, was careful not … Continue reading
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