Mark Goldblatt
In its February 28 issue, the Second Supper Alternative News, a satirical student-run journal at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (UW-L), published an article titled “Cheney Kills Five Crips in Inner-City Hunting Accident.” The piece poked fun at Vice…
It hasn’t been a good week for the editorial brain trust at CNN. As widespread rioting and intimidation gripped the Islamic world following the publication, in a Danish newspaper, of cartoons depicting Muhammad as an enabler of terrorism, the network…
Shotgunning through the hundreds of channels which now lurk mysteriously and redundantly inside my cable box, I recently chanced upon an HBO film from last year called The Girl in the Cafe. It tells the story of the unlikely romance…
During President Bush’s lengthy press conference Monday morning, the topic of relief for Hurricane Katrina victims came up, and he was asked by a reporter what he would be “giving to the nation on the issue of race” in 2006….
There are many reasons to admire Rome, the HBO series which concluded its first season Sunday night. Though sexually explicit and grotesquely bloody, the scripts manage seamlessly to intermingle fictional characters with grand historical figures. Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and…
“The truth is the engine of our judicial system, and if you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost.” — Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, last week, announcing the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Chief of Staff of Vice President…
The Millions More Movement rally kicked off in Washington, D.C. Saturday morning with Congressman Mel Watts (D-N.C.) declaring that the gathering’s goal was “finding a way to eliminate poverty in the richest country in the world.” This is a straightforward,…
Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq, and who’s been intermittently camped outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas demanding to meet with him for a second time, has been hailed as the public face of the antiwar movement….
There’s a more scandalous question hovering in the background of Valerie Plame affair than whether presidential adviser Karl Rove intentionally or inadvertently blew the cover of a CIA agent — namely, the question of how Plame’s husband Joe Wilson wound…
NEW YORK — An odd thing happened to me recently. I’d just attended a public policy debate — a rarity in Manhattan inasmuch as the audience turned out to be evenly divided between liberals and conservatives. I was milling about…
