Enemy Central
It’s so exciting. Colin Powell has made another hasty decision. He likes to be rolled over. Or self-rolled. A profile in courage and all the rest. And it has nothing to do with race — human, presidential, or otherwise. Rather,…
In happier days Paul Krugman would have been paid in rubles instead of having to settle for a piddling $1.4 million in devalued dollars and a Nobel Prize in economics instead of a Pulitzer or a Peace Prize or a…
It was a very good year. Far from having us search for them, they all came to us. Wannabe Enemies, begging for attention, disturbing our peace, our poetry readings and cello recitals, our outings into the lake district to fish…
It hasn’t been a good week for Ron Paul. Who? As Washington Post fact-checker Howard Kurtz noted, before the other night Paul was “a guy no one had ever heard of.” Evidently, his name has never appeared on any ballot,…
Guess who the Enemy of the Week should be? According to Ms. Jean Toles, who on May 6 sent us a mysterious communique from an undisclosed location, none other than “R. Emmett Tyrrell himself.” He doesn’t even get to share…
One thing we know: Sheryl Crow never went to Charmin school. The annual White House Correspondents’ dinner, to be sure, attracts all sorts: presidents, senators, scribes, Comedy Central comedians, sundry Hollywood riff-raff. But Ms. Crow was the first stalker to…
Enemy Central has been left speechless. At Tuesday’s memorial service for the victims of Monday’s massacre, the concluding remarks were delivered by Virginia Tech’s Poet Emeritus, who managed to do the unimaginable: She turned the event into a Paul Wellstone…
“This event has scarred me for life,” said a Rutgers player in the Imus wars. One would have thought Imus himself might have said that, except his visage has been pretty well scarred since at least his earlier days in…
Frustrated in her efforts to use big government planes to fly to the West Coast for getaway shopping weekends, the Hon. Nancy Pelosi flew east on an even bigger government airplane. Intending to put her multicultural touch to good use,…
Sir Donald Parnell of London, a long-time talent scout for Enemy Central, wired us the other day to “nominate Chuck Hagel as EOW for insinuating Impeachment for President Bush because he will not listen to him regarding Iraq.” Hear, hear!…
