Avatar director James Cameron’s previous films have grossed more than a billion dollars, and his most recent effort may well push him past the $2 billion mark when all the dust has settled. Say what one may about the guy, he knows where the “on” button is (somewhere in the universally shared limbic system . . . → Read More: An evening at the talkies: “Avatar” and “Sherlock Holmes”
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What is “Why is the United States legally obligated to provide Israel with new military hardware whenever that nation feels a bit insecure?” Yes, it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law! The Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2008 amended the Arms Control Export Act of 1976 to require that any U.S. arms . . . → Read More: Because there aren’t nearly enough guns in the Middle East John Dickerson was responsible for one of the half-dozen or so all-time busiest days on my blog, back in March of 2006. I basically called him a moron, enjoyed brief but universal acclaim for doing so and then felt compelled to apologize a day or two later after he persuaded me that he was, . . . → Read More: Slate’s John Dickerson: Can Custer rally his troops post-Little Bighorn? Returning once again to Tim Noah, Slate’s point guy on the insurance reform story. A few days ago he wrote a story about the astonishingly brief life cycle of the Medicare buy-in plan, which I remarked on here. Subsequently, he wrote another story acknowledging that whatever comes out of the Senate will lack all . . . → Read More: Keep hope alive even if it requires heroic measures I’ve been remarking for almost two years now that Barack Obama’s insurance reform plan in its original glory is quite similar to, but slightly weaker than, one proposed by Richard Nixon 45 years ago, but upon review I don’t see that I ever provided any concrete details. Behold … The plan is organized around . . . → Read More: The Obama-Nixon nexus on health care Slate editor Jacob Weisberg wrote a story yesterday, published under the auspices of an occasional column called “The Big Idea,” explaining how Republicans were never serious about health insurance reform. Slate readers are supposed to be an upscale, well-educated lot so one might assume they’re aware that Republicans recently controlled the White House for . . . → Read More: In which Jacob Weisberg assassinates the obvious I hardly ever watch Chris Matthews on MSNBC but recently I’ve made an effort to inoculate myself against the madness by watching him and some of the other ADD media types who populate the various aethereal passages. Much of today’s episode was focused upon Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance lecture—assessments of which varied wildly across . . . → Read More: Momentarily entertaining stuff This place would be a paradise tomorrow if every department had a supervisor with a submachine gun. - Jim Jones on Jonestown At home, the Obama Justice Department is busy trying to insulate the Bush administration at large and torture memo author John Yoo in particular from the US Geneva Conventions obligation . . . → Read More: Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech was dynamite I was watching Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show yesterday when she ran a story about ten senators joining together to devise a health care sop for liberals who at this point are like beggars in the desert asking not for a drink of water but only for someone to waft a canteen under their noses. . . . → Read More: The life cycle of a health insurance reform idea I had every best intention of doing little more than to acknowledge that president Obama made some sort of speech about some sort of strategy in some sort of country called Afghanistan, but people keep writing about it and I keep reading about it and, well, you know. Most recently, I read the reaction . . . → Read More: In which Opium vanishes from the Afghan landscape, or, Barack in Wonderland |
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