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- September
30, 2003: The
question of the media, the question of the Democrats, a composer responds,
and more
- September
25, 2003: Doh,
I mean Isabel! Tibet, yes, but Iraq, no! Diva divina — and more
- September
22, 2003: A
“Caucasian Club” — ugh. The paranoid style (cont.). A new symphony —
and more
- September
16, 2003: A
Voice For Our Time
- September
15, 2003: Beethoven,
Verdi — and someone you don’t know
- September
10, 2003: Laughing
in Auschwitz, the Jewess Barbie, the “evil” Hannity, &c.
- September
8, 2003: The
ring of truth, perversity in America, California crabbing, and more
- September
4, 2003: The
way they cartoon in Palm Beach. A little more from the president, please.
Watching Dean — and more
- September
2, 2003: Of
the Rooney Rule, Classically Black, and other distinctively American
outrages
- July
31, 2003: "I
am Al Pacino's assistant." A night at the opera. Race games (cont.)
—and
more
- July
30, 2003: Beware
Hillary. Hoover, always Hoover. Gay High (cont.) — and more
- July
29, 2003: The
South Africanization of American Life, Part 8,235,958. Gay High. Our
friends the Germans — and more
- July
25, 2003: California
or Bust(amente). Nancy Pelosi gets sly. Killer ants (I mean, ant killers).
And more
- July
23, 2003: Celia,
you're breakin' our hearts. The Democrats: Talk back to them. Medals
of Freedom, well awarded —
and more
- July
18, 2003: Ted
Kennedy blows hard. The NAACP cracks up (cont.). The Hilarity of the
Week. Etc.
- July
15, 2003: Are
you partisan? Heaven at Ronnie’s. Rebels against race — and more
- July
8, 2003: In
defense of contempt for the U.N. In praise of a Righteous Frenchman.
Trying to get hitched, unracially — and more
- July
7, 2003: That
hard-playing Jihad Mosque squad. Amiri’s unofficial. An axis with room
— etc.
- June
30, 2003: The
forgotten 13. Denis Thatcher holes out. The agony of affirmative action
— and more
- June
26, 2003: When
this nonsense will end. The extent of their “lying.” Boxer as perfect,
and nauseating, Democrat — and more
- June
20, 2003: My
Michigan. There was a man. The guilty Weather bomber — and more
- June
18, 2003: Rooting
them on (or more); serving patriotically; clearing out of Brussels;
etc.
- June
17, 2003: A
difference, a pitch, a little language, and more
- June
13, 2003: Another
(Israeli) 9/11. Answering Chirac. Something in the water — and more
- June
9, 2003: HRC,
the only and only. The Times is down — pile on. Sen. Graham as nut —
and more
- June
6, 2003: A
Long Way from ’78
- June
2, 2003: Notification,
not consent! Chinese evil continues (yawn). A slogan for ’04 —
etc.
- May
29, 2003: My
moment of Hope. My man for chief justice. Talkin’ Democrat — etc.
- May
27, 2003: Ambush!
Peeking through the Hedges. Advice to the Harvard-bound. And more
- May
21, 2003: Oh,
the arrogance — still. Why Bush is different (part 1,056,331). Red meat
for graduates — and more
- May
19, 2003: Against
“modernity,” against Molly Ivins, a lesbian in every pot! &c.
- May
16, 2003: Mimi
’n’ Monica, Moseley Braun and Sharpton, Vijay ’n’ Annika, and more
- May
12, 2003: Oh,
Jayson! A trio of flags. What makes you “far right”? And more
- May
1, 2003: A
night at the opera, Clinton speaks (and speaks), Gephardt ridicules
(stupidly) — and more
- April
28, 2003: Say
what? “Fedayeen” Maureen. Worth the fight — and more
- April
25, 2003: Hello,
Freedom Man! The beauty of April. “Baby” talk — and more
- April
25, 2003: Sultry,
Sexy, and Smart
- April
24, 2003: Oh,
Teresa! Hating Chalabi. For Ft. Worth mayor — and more
- April
23, 2003: Thatcher
was right. Sarandon is wrong. O welche Lust!
- April
17, 2003: Bill
Clinton, always. My kind of suicide. The ever-reliable British press
— and more
- April
16, 2003: Learning
from Germany, begrudging the liberation, hating the anti-Communists,
&c.
- April
10, 2003: A
glorious effort, sole man, in Saddam’s VCR, and more
- April
8, 2003: That
ol’ devil, equation. How's Koch doin’? A little practical politics —
and more
- April
7, 2003: The
Dean and “diversity.” Tips from Tito. A kid and his hooker — and more
- April
4, 2003: How
Mod! Is San Francisco in America? Arab undies. And more
- April
3, 2003: The
Master of Desert One, a Million Mogadishu Men, a seating chart — and
more
- March
31, 2003: “His
people,” our people, la moutarde, and more
- March
28, 2003: What’s
in a mural? The ugliest face of protest. Oscar talk — and more
- March
26, 2003: Down
at the rodeo, fighting “nice,” dead Reds, and more
- March
25, 2003: “You’re
late,” Bush-and-Hitler, Uncle Walter (sigh), and more
- March
17, 2003: The
Dems' man, Clinton worse than Blix, FJBs for War, &c.
- March
14, 2003: A
free vote, stellar performances, blunter still, &c.
- March
12, 2003: As
we drone on . . ., New York goes south, when war is good for children,
&c.
- March
11, 2003: A
president who means it. What good the student exchange? Straight from
the emir’s mouth — and more
- March
7, 2003: Men
who lunch, candidates who fail, governments that tyrannize, and more
- March
4, 2003: Talking
BASURA — I mean, TRASH
- March
3, 2003: Oxford
jerks, Castro as censor, the life of an expression, &c.
- February
28, 2003: Rather
’n’ Saddam, a hero’s fate, caring less, &c
- February
26, 2003: When
Bush is ticked. The incredible question-asker. An American in his heart.
And more
- February
25, 2003: Straight
Talk from Miami
- February
24, 2003: The
way it ought to be, the glory of Albania, the abuse of “civil
rights,” &c.
- February
21, 2003: Where
is Jian-li Yang? The Eastern Europeans and us. “Reds,” thank you! And
more
- February
20, 2003: The
hopelessness of Jimmy Carter. The gall of the Gaul. Newsweek gets fancy.
And more
- February
13, 2003: Getting
your insults right...
- February
12, 2003: The
World of Ned Rorem
- February
11, 2003: Me and (C.) Hef; CBS and the
DNC; “Give me an F, Prof. Bloom”; and more
- February
10, 2003: What an axis! The soi-disant
“liberal hawk.” The studly Ramon — and more
- February
6, 2003: To Be in Davos, Part IV
- February
5, 2003: To Be in Davos, Part III
- February
4, 2003: To Be in Davos, Part II
- February
3, 2003: To Be in Davos, Part I
- January
30, 2003: “Running free”...
- January
29, 2003: Going “nuke-u-lar,” a kiss
for the French finance minister, the charmingest Democrat, and more
- January
17, 2003: Go, Moammar? A right man. What
do you mean, “Impromptus”? And more
- January
14, 2003: The GOP of Lincoln (Chafee).
The Greatest Title Never Used. A little language-rasslin’. And more
- January
13, 2003: But what about the tuna? “Black
Expressions.” Meet Sparkle! Etc.
- January
9, 2003: Dr./Sen. Narcissus? Cliff Roberts’s
legacy. A little Bible thumpin’. And more
- January
3, 2003: The way W. pardons...
- January
2, 2003: A shield for Japan...
- December
27, 2002: Lotting, fuming, appreciating,
&c.
- December
12, 2002: Sing me an opening! THE END
- December
10, 2002: Remember Biscet. Head fakes
in English...
- December
9, 2002: Are you a diverse person? On
not succumbing to Sharpton. The new Vladimir Posner. Etc.
- December
2, 2002: A funny face, “social rest,”
a king’s ransom, and more.
- November
27, 2002: Ignorant or hateful? Books
and covers. Sing me an opening! &c.
- November
26, 2002: Our Splendid
Cuss: The Likable Phil Gramm
- November
25, 2002: Hip, goateed, and right. Speaker
Hammer? How would Michael look now? Etc.
- November
20, 2002: “Gutter” Politics
- November
14, 2002: King Karl, some rhetoric for
Bush, in Saddam’s blood, and more.
- November
13, 2002: Who’s calling the shots? Bush
as Dumbo, or Slickbo. Some gas and a rifle. Etc.
- November
12, 2002: Fritz Mondale, the life of
his party. The “collegial” Jim Jeffords. A Muslim heroine — and martyr?
Etc.
- November
7, 2002: Winning, and losing, everywhere;
will Jesse Helms be “passionate”?; Brushes with Greatness; and more.
- November
4, 2002: Oh, Canadians! plus Sing Me
an Opening, Great Muse!
- November
1, 2002: Inhuman and un-American. Down
Arkansas way. Stimulation at Cornell. And more.
- October
30, 2002: A sickening smile, a question
of completeness, a vision of Susan Sarandon, &c.
- October
28, 2002: Brushes with greatness, the
madness of the Middle East, our WWII foes, &c.
- October
24, 2002: For a new ranch policy. His
finest moment. “WAR DRAGS ON.” And more.
- October
22, 2002: The ghost of ol’ Joe, art for
Atta’s sake, us “Taliban Republicans,” and more.
- October
21, 2002: Judenrein, jawohl! A
little dab doesn’t do them. Jeb and America. Etc.
- October
17, 2002: Too black to fight? Saddam
outdoes Chicago. Defending Jeane K. And more.
- October
16, 2002: The more the merrier — ha!
Who’s un-Montanan? A final cry of disgust. And more.
- October
15, 2002: Why not Reagan? “The man behind
the desk.” Leon Klinghoffer’s killer. And more.
- October
10, 2002: Perfect speech, perfect hypocrisy,
perfect awarding, and more.
- October
7, 2002: “Patrice Lumumba Ford,” “What
will the Gentiles think?,” Did Teddy pull a Clinton?, &c.
- October
4, 2002: Der “Homeland,” His Eyebrow-ness,
“Oil, that is,” &c.
- October
2, 2002: Grace Mugabe’s shopping, Barry
Manilow’s loyalties, George W. Bush’s family, &c.
- October
1, 2002: An impolitic assessment, a defense
of stewards, three cracks at the Times, &c.
- September
26, 2002: Whose “foes”? Why NATO? Forever
Lee. Etc.
- September
25, 2002: But did you say that about
Ollie? The squeals of losers. More Aussie-love. Etc.
- September
20, 2002: There’s a war on, right? A
thousand words is worth a picture. Me and the PM. And more.
- September
19, 2002: Furl it, please! When Begin
bombed alone. Al Qaeda relaxes standards. Etc.
- September
18, 2002: “Power
and Values”
- September
16, 2002: Chewing on
Music
- September
12, 2002: Change and Determination
- September
6, 2002: Hunting Tiger
- September
5, 2002: Preempting, sighing, mugging,
&c.
- August
29, 2002: “Timid brothers,” the Car Talk
brothers, a blast from the past, &c.
- August
26, 2002: Do we let children around them?
Remembering “mano a mano.” Ah, W.-speak! And more.
- August
22, 2002: Making it, stealing it, concealing
it, &c.
- August
20, 2002: Go Down, Carl. The “ethics”
dodge. Realer than thou. And more.
- August
15, 2002: Who you (we) callin’ liberal?
A future-minded dinosaur. Establishment clauses. And more.
- August
8, 2002: The Prague Connection, from
tee to green, DiFi’s blunder, &c.
- August
5, 2002: Him and her. Hombre of the Week.
The Best Job in the World. And more.
- August
1, 2002: A leading lead, our modern Johnson,
a question for the administration, &c.
- July
31, 2002: The “lurking” enemy. They’re
all DLC-ers. Your name, your bane. And more.
- July
30, 2002: Twisted and salted. Should
we just junk the SAT? “I hate Yelland.” And more.
- July
25, 2002: Where to plant? Mr. Mayor,
Esquire. Oh, Tannenbaum! And more.
- July
18, 2002: Carts and Horses. King Colin.
Outrage in Georgia — and more.
- July
16, 2002: Black and blue, again. Jimmy
C., again. A (partial) defense of Paul Newman — and more.
- July
15, 2002: A little work? “You didn’t
go to that war.” Egypt’s “axis of evil” — and more.
- July
11, 2002: Reno, wrapped up. For want
of a Christmas tree. Jackie, oh! And more.
- July
8, 2002: The luxury of a movie star,
the Democrats’ odd glee, decapitating Margaret, &c.
- July
2, 2002: A picture worth a thousand words,
a Clintonite’s lifeline, vignettes from Racial America, and more.
- July
1, 2002: Rude
Awakenings
- May
28, 2002: Some “dissident.” Doin’ the
skin-color nasty. A bit of righteous kvetching. Etc.
- May
24, 2002: A heroine, blocked; Castro
at the Met; the pressure on Tiger, &c.
- May
23, 2002: The
Conservative on Campus
- May
22, 2002: Bob Jones U., Di’s death, what’s
“real,” &c.
- May
21, 2002: A Cuba Policy to Cheer
- May
20, 2002: Bush knew? “Dr. Win
the War.” The Pearl video. And more..
- May
17, 2002: Carter and me, Lynn Cheney
and “me,” CNN’s smear, &c.
- May
13, 2002: There
He Goes Again
- May
7, 2002: Impromptus
- May
3, 2002: You Didn’t Ask for It, You Got
It: Carterpalooza!
- May
2, 2002: Arafat and Tiger, Nimoy and
Shatner, Reagan and Wayne, &c.
- April
24, 2002: Giving in to NR, a word from
Hud, who gets to be (or has to be) an “Hispanic”?, &c.
- April
23, 2002: Hungry ex-presidents, a minority
you can hate, "Indians" and "terrorists," &c.
- April
22, 2002: Back to Plessy, Easter
with Fidel, Miller's new tale, &c.
- April
18, 2002: A telling sermon, a tale of
two ambassadors, Tiger talk, &c.
- April
11, 2002: The Middle East, surreal. Studyin’
whitey at Tufts....
- April
8, 2002: “Two girls,” the Prez and “I,”
Peres over Paris, &c.
- April
5, 2002: The meaning of “restraint”…
- April
3, 2002: To be a diplomat...
- April
2, 2002: Merry
Wives and Others
- April
1, 2002: Middle East madness...
- March
27, 2002: Dumb about Bush, hypocritical
about free speech, kooky about Carolina, &c.
- March
26, 2002: Black like Oscar, smeared like
Ashcroft, valentines from England, &c.
- March
25, 2002: The world’s most important
columnist, the question of blackmail, Andrea Yates, &c.
- March
19, 2002: The “unhelpful” George Bush,
the slimed Charles Pickering, a timeless classic, &c.
- March
13, 2002: Hillary, historic screamers,
language riffs, &c.
- March
12, 2002: Counting sand, shunning Boy
Scouts, talkin’ young, &c.
- March
11, 2002: To be secretary of state, His
Koppelness, the incorrigible John Kerry, &c.
- March
6, 2002: Naipaul, campus thugs, CNN's
defender, &c.
- February
27, 2002: Frumgate
- February
27, 2002: Grandpa Munster, poor Thornton
Wilder, Oliver Stone, &c.
- February
26, 2002: Condi Rice, Sarah Hughes,
a troublesome bobsledder, &c.
- February
22, 2002: The prez abroad, Ashcroft
does it again, Powell the Perfect, &c.
- February
18, 2002: Vernon Walters, Colin Powell,
Bea Arthur, &c.
- February
13, 2002: The damnable war, Joe Lieberman
again, three heroines, &c.
- February
11, 2002: Looking in on Salt Lake.
- February
7, 2002: One mean senator, Clinton’s
latest, against the Olympic grinches, &c.
- February
4, 2002: Nekkid at Justice, the buffalo-eaters,
another H.W. moment, &c.
- January
31, 2002: Applause lines, my latest
fantasy, my most embarrassing moments, &c.
- January
29, 2002: Who you callin’ “Dr.”? A
short course on the American psyche.
- January
28, 2002: A chilling flashback, of
whom I am in awe, “The Mac,” &c.
- January
17, 2002: Nonsense in three colors,
driving in Finland and Idaho, sex al fresco, &c.
- January
15, 2002: Helen of “Oy!,” recess time,
“Is there a ‘Dr.’ in the house?,” &c.
- January
11, 2002: In Castro’s salon, pants
for Afghanistan, about Al Sharpton, &c.
- January
10, 2002: “The movement,” the Friend
of Bob, Larry Summers blows it, &c.
- January
7, 2002: Helen Thomas, leftist style,
heroes of anti-porn, &c.
- January
4, 2002: Ali, Tyson, Clooney, &c.
- January
3, 2002: A voice from the American
street, the question of Clinton, hating pornographers, &c.
- January
2, 2002: “Person” of the Year, hookers
at Xmas, sigh-making stories, &c.
- December
17, 2001: The amazing George W. Bush,
miracle in a men’s room, “Merry Christmas,” &c.
- December
6, 2001: Ignoble Nobelists, remembering
Social Security, “I Am My Own Grandpa,” &.
- December
4, 2001: About terror, and the flag,
and the homefront’s responsibility, &c.
- November
30, 2001: Bush’s RFK caper, “asking
not,” credit to a dictator, &c.
- November
20, 2001: A boost from the hip, a little
econ. lesson, the best, most imperiled nominee, &c.
- November
13, 2001: My boy Janklow, my boy Silvio,
my boy Cliffie, &c.
- November
12, 2001: Election gripes, Clinton
gripes, “public service” gripes, &c.
- November
5, 2001: Fearing Mayor Green, dressing
up back home, more “mainstreaming” of porn, &c.
- November
2, 2001: Times bashing, blacklist envy,
a few thoughts on porn, &.
- October
22, 2001: A crucial week, a flag-burning
fool, the Bush touch, &c.
- October
19, 2001: More blood libel, more going
to court, more “identity politics,” &c.
- October
12, 2001: Victims and victimizers,
just plain “Osama,” Columbia’s new prez, &c.
- October
10, 2001: Blaming the Jews, forgetting
the Cole, remembering Teheran, &c.
- October
5, 2001: Government’s hour, airport
madness, lucky Colin Powell, &c.
- September
21, 2001: Canceling Kate, the “warmonger”
within, Infamous Amos, &c.
- September
19, 2001: The terrible truth, a book
to borrow, a Backstreet Boy, &c.
- September
17, 2001: The Perfect European, K-mart’s
good deed, a personal story, &c.
- September
16, 2001: The rhetorical Bush, the
ever-present Clinton, a report from Broadway, &c.
- September
13, 2001: Thinking about the war that
has been visited on us.
- August
13, 2001: Clintons and Condits, Yangs
and Wangs, Bork’s beard, cont., &c.
- August
10, 2001: My Bush fantasy, a tale of
two beards, Trent as cheerleader, &c.
- August
1, 2001: Prince Philip, lout and brute,
Miss Venezuela gets a boob job, John Cusack, Bolshevik jerk, &c.
- July
25, 2001: “Mr. Missile Defense,”
smirks about Jenna, (Dan) Rather galling, &c.
- July
23, 2001: A gutsy George Bush, a gutsy
Clinton (?), a gutsy Jose Napoleon Duarte, &c.
- July
13, 2001: Veto, veto, veto. Shun the
NAACP. Gimme a West Wing! And more
- July
9, 2001: An
Eye on China
- July
6, 2001: Bill Clinton, Anna Kournikova,
Peter Jennings, &c.
- June
26, 2001: Janet Reno, W.’s (and
Daddy’s) men, tilted like a Fox? &c.
- June
21, 2001: The Three B’s, the mayor
of New York, two very different Lincolns, &c.
- June
12, 2001: Taiwan, Clinton-China, The
Chair, &c.
- June
8, 2001: Jenna, Dan Gable, William
Hague & more
- June
5, 2001: W.’s Wit, Jeffords’s
Snit, and more
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