Bottled Drinks
With Labor Day gaining fast, summer is almost over. Rather than mourn its demise with a sack of hooch, we should toast our memories with a bottle of something special. The writers have some suggestions.
Archive
A collection of 14235 issues
28 August 2007: Morning
Analysis of Bush's reasons to reward loyalty over competence (particularly for "Fredos" who don't turn on their bosses). Conservative picks for who should replace Gonzales. News bubbles up of an Idaho senator pleading guilty to solicitation, giving license to toilet reporting. Walter Mosley: Two
27 August 2007: Afternoon
After three weeks of work and two additional deaths, Utah rescue team plans to lower robotic camera into mine. More than 63 people are dead in Greek forest fires--is it arson? Russia arrests 10 members of Chechen underworld, linking them to the death of a controversial and crusading journalist.
27 August 2007: Morning
Thanks for the ride, Bert: Gonzales resigns. Army lures new recruits with $20,000 to enter basic by the end of September--aka, the end of the fiscal year. With fewer foreign fighters able to enter Iraq, insurgents are enlisting children, and U.S. detention facilities are filling with pre-
Book Digest: August 27, 2007
The Americano; Away; Havana Noir; The Tenderness of Wolves; Glimmer Train; Children at Play; A French Alphabet Book of 1814; Almost a Miracle; The Septembers of Shiraz; The Art of Political Murder; Blood Passion; Why Kerouac Matters; The Politics of Heaven; Henry Kissinger; Bearing the Body
Pulp Friction
Thomas Allen’s work brims with loose women, bad men, and secret, dangerous lives. Working with pulp novel covers, he infuses them with new life and narratives, pushing pulp’s roughish allusions into three dimensions.
24 August 2007: Afternoon
Amnesty publishes proof Sudan is breaking the Darfur arms embargo--most likely with the help of Russia. Much of the U.S. is currently snorkeling, if not Jet-Skiing, home from work. Gov. George Wallace's would-be assassin released from prison after serving 35 years of 53-year
Video Digest: August 24, 2007
Even game-show hosts make mistakes sometimes; well, except for Barker: Alex Trebek is drunk; Pat Sajak is not cool; Bob Barker is bulletproof
Age of Consent
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we instruct a starry-eyed reader in the ways of bagging young Hollywood tail.
24 August 2007: Morning
Flinty intelligence assessment of Iraq's government, Bush's government, and Democrats who would withdraw. Will an op-ed by seven soldiers have more impact than stories penned by generals? (See here for the op-ed.) Chapter five in Josh Neufeld's wonderful "A.D."