Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Saw Battle of Algiers again today. Great stuff, and so resonant with US in Iraq. You've got your torture, and your generic willingnes...

'nuff said.

This here is some classic EU-speak. Still, it's amazing and imporant to see ridiculous, artificially-precise and seemingly legalized pr...

Saw Midnight Express for the first time a few nights ago. I guess it looked interesting based on the Blockbuster online description. Feh. ...

Saw " Judgment at Nuremberg " for the first time last week. Loved it. I wish our current regime would take a look at this and se...

We give lots more in charity than Europeans do . Not at all surprising to me.

Just read this for the first time. Loved it. Have a few quotes that I'd like to single out but don't have the book in front of me....

"The World" had a fascinating and frightening report on surveillance in Britain.

David Rieff brilliantly takes down some of Anne-Marie Slaughter's romanticism about America and its role in the world. I love the ide...

FIU "one of the very worst universities in the country" ? Ouch.

I was no fan of Slick Willy, and found his "depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" to be a real low in the annals of demo...

So was surfing this morning and caught the middle part of the first "Planet of the Apes" movie. I am sure that others have picked...

Neat little piece in the June 2nd "economics focus" feature, entitled " Guests v gatecrashers ". Bottom line: illegal i...

Too bad they ignored it .

OK, I know that globalization has some very real negative consequences on some people who can ill-afford to suffer them. But let me just po...

Finished it a week or so ago. Feh. Didn't really get what people see in it. That it's nonlinear and therefore somehow jazzy? I t...

More chill in East-West relations (funny sounding term, huh?) as Putin says that Russia will put a moratorium on implementing the Convention...

Not terribly surprising. It was definitely the safest bet, though of course "safe" is not a word one generally uses in connection...

The EU's attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in lin...

Moravcsik has a piece in Newsweek International which I have only skimmed but which, on that basis, I largely agree with. The Europe of 20...