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So John Bolton’s not running. Big whoop, right? But a sign of how sick our politics are that he or anyone would consider himself presidential timber. A lying, war-mongering loony who drove America over the cliff into Iraq and was … Continue reading →

He’s hiding behind our troops, using them as a shield to deflect his blatant if unwitting admission that he would do Iraq all over again. Are the Democrats going to let him get away with it?

Someone who used to translate for Plisetskaya during her American press conferences and interviews recalls frequently asking her, “Do you really want me to translate that?” after Plisetskaya had said something indiscreet, uninhibited, proscribed. The answer was always a resounding … Continue reading →

The tall would very much be Veronika Part. It’s a given that she dominates any theatrical space that she’s in. But after watching her for more than fifteen years, Part can still surprise me. As the Mistress in Lilac Garden … Continue reading →

The scales have fallen from America’s eyes about the way our Supreme Court weighs those scales of justice–with their thumbs pressed down! Jim Newell at Salon reports on the country’s awakening to the sham perpetuated by our Supreme injustices.

The Indian Point complex is one of the oldest, most dilapidated nuclear installations in the country, and it’s in our own backyard. A transformer there exploded yesterday and caused a fire. And this is the nuclear plant complex that will … Continue reading →

In his desperate desire to deliver TPP for the co-President (Dimon has of course come out with his kiss-of-death endorsement), Obama has now taken himself to depths of self-engineered humiliation that are just too graphic to be believed. Yes, he … Continue reading →

My father’s mother Sallie was not good at all when it came to racial bias, but I remember her calling us upset in September, 1973, when she heard that the great Diana Sands had died very prematurely of cancer. Grandma … Continue reading →

Plisetskaya is one of those people who truly seemed immortal. I remember interviewing her in 2001, when she was a spring chicken of 76. She was very, I would have to say. . . sexy. She was a law unto … Continue reading →

Playing dumb is one major way that Blitzer keeps that salary rolling in. Jon Stewart lacerates the faux-incredulity of the willing-to-be-truly-out-of-touch-for-a-price “newscaster.”